Blame NanoWrimo for Infinity Squad 2
Thank you for everyone who's been reading, reviewing and telling their friends about Infinity Squad these last few months.
I haven't forgotten about my pledge and over this year I've been slowly carving "Infinity Squad 2: The Quest for More Squad" out of the rock. But I needed something to get me over the hump, some sort of deadline, even an artificial one.
My wife and writers group were doing National Novel Writing Month, or NanoWrimo, a nation-wide quest somewhat like National Breast Cancer Awareness month, except the goal is to write all of a 50,000 word novel in just November. (The amount of breast awareness is about the same in both activities.)
With the NanoWrimo deadlines looming, I put butt in chair and finally finished the first draft of Infinity Squad 2!
Which was 180,000 words long.
For reference, Infinity Squad 1 was 100,000 words long. Which is a normal, light, fun fast novel length.
So for the last few weeks I've been editing and trying to decide: do I break it into two parts and leave you folks on a cliffhanger at the end of 2, or do I cut the heart out of the work so it can be the length everyone loved the first time around? Or do I release two versions, a short "Studio Cut" and a longer "Director's Cut"? It's an ebook, there's no production cost to making two versions beyond my time.
Just like Lieutenant Forrest, I choose none of the available options. You guys are getting all of the storylines and all of the action, probably edited down to 150,000 words when I'm done, but I'm not going to cliffhang you or leave half the book out.
Look for Infinity Squad 2 to come out around July 4th of 2014! At which point Infinity Squad 1 will go free on Amazon to promote it! (Unless the Baen slush pile readers I met at DragonCon this year pull IF1 from purgatory and make me an offer I can't refuse.)
Stay frosty my friends,
Shuvom
I haven't forgotten about my pledge and over this year I've been slowly carving "Infinity Squad 2: The Quest for More Squad" out of the rock. But I needed something to get me over the hump, some sort of deadline, even an artificial one.
My wife and writers group were doing National Novel Writing Month, or NanoWrimo, a nation-wide quest somewhat like National Breast Cancer Awareness month, except the goal is to write all of a 50,000 word novel in just November. (The amount of breast awareness is about the same in both activities.)
With the NanoWrimo deadlines looming, I put butt in chair and finally finished the first draft of Infinity Squad 2!
Which was 180,000 words long.
For reference, Infinity Squad 1 was 100,000 words long. Which is a normal, light, fun fast novel length.
So for the last few weeks I've been editing and trying to decide: do I break it into two parts and leave you folks on a cliffhanger at the end of 2, or do I cut the heart out of the work so it can be the length everyone loved the first time around? Or do I release two versions, a short "Studio Cut" and a longer "Director's Cut"? It's an ebook, there's no production cost to making two versions beyond my time.
Just like Lieutenant Forrest, I choose none of the available options. You guys are getting all of the storylines and all of the action, probably edited down to 150,000 words when I'm done, but I'm not going to cliffhang you or leave half the book out.
Look for Infinity Squad 2 to come out around July 4th of 2014! At which point Infinity Squad 1 will go free on Amazon to promote it! (Unless the Baen slush pile readers I met at DragonCon this year pull IF1 from purgatory and make me an offer I can't refuse.)
Stay frosty my friends,
Shuvom
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