Today I am editing ...

I’m more than ¾ of the way through Archangel Down, my next book. I’m taking a break to go back and edit it, to smooth out my choppy prose and to make it funnier (because a story that starts out in an interrogation room needs to be funny, don’t you know). 

I’m scared out of my skin to be leaving the I Bring the Fire universe, but also happy because I’m writing about something I hate. I always write from a place of hate. Fire was all about redeeming Chaos–not making it cute and cuddly–making it painful and hard and necessary.

This is about redeeming something else. I won’t say too much about it, but yes, it’s about redemption, and hope, and choices in the face of change and chaos. And it’s also got a love story in it underneath it all–because all good stories have love beneath the surface.

Archangel Down will be a trilogy. I probably won’t publish Part I until I have the second part all the way done, and the third part well on the way to done. As much as I’m enjoying it, I tell myself it will never sell. It’s sci-fi, not fantasy and the markets a little smaller for that. If I’m almost done with Part III, even if Part I and II aren’t selling I’ll finish ‘cause I’m close anyway.

Okay, back to it …