Quick Update and What’s Coming Next

It’s been a while since the last blog post, and I’m sure you’re wondering, “What’s going on in Lindsay’s world?” You weren’t? Well, humor me anyway.

First off, Wounded is now available at iTunes which means you can get it just about everywhere (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Smashwords), if you’re game to try a modern mystery story. Thank you to everyone who has already grabbed a copy. Some people have asked if there will be more stories with the characters, and I probably will do a couple more at some point. As I’ll point out if I get around to writing my post on genre-hopping (it’s on the to-do list), it’s a lot easier to get something new off the ground if you have a series.

But next up, we have more fantasy.

I’m almost done with the first editing pass of Republic, the monster follow-up to the Forged in Blood novels. You knew the new government couldn’t get off the ground without a few snafus, right? And, even more obvious, Amaranthe and Sicarius couldn’t go on a tropical vacation without getting into trouble.

Last month, I was debating whether to split Republic into two books, but I’ve decided there’s not really a good breaking point, so I’m going to leave it as one. It’s currently sitting at 212,000 words (just over twice the length of the first Emperor’s Edge book). Why so big? We’ve got six point-of-view characters in this one (Amaranthe, Sicarius, Tikaya, Mahliki, Sespian, and Maldynado), and there’s a lot going on. With all of those POV characters, this is a departure from the usual format, but I hope fans of the series will enjoy spending time in these guys’ heads.

I’m not sure on the release date for Republic yet, but it should be early spring. It will take my beta readers a while to plow through this beast, and while they’re working on that, I’m going to be finishing the fourth Flash Gold novella. I started on it last summer, but got distracted by all of my other projects. I’ve been invited to a steampunk convention in Tucson in a couple of weeks, though, so I thought I should write a little more actual steampunk! It would be nice to finish it up and have it ready to go by then, but I don’t know if that will happen, because I have a ski vacation coming up next week (bad author, slacker author, I know!). I’ll try though.

After FG4 and Republic, I’ll be working on the second Rust & Relics book as well as the first novel in Yanko’s series (if you haven’t checked out the prequel novellas yet, they’re available everywhere now too). For those who have already read the novellas, the first one in particular, you’ll get to find out who “Dak” is in Republic.

That’s about it for writing updates. For those who are authors or who are interested in that side of the business, I was interviewed on the Self Publishing Podcast last week. Check it out if you need something to listen to during your commute.

Any thoughts? Questions? Let me know!

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