Update on Current Projects
The summer has been extremely busy, both in terms of writing and the day job. On the regulatory professional side, my client is in the process of a financing, which if successful, would move me into a permanent position with the company. That means more job security and a nice raise. 
On the writing side, I’ve been trying to work on the Mek series and building Prescient Sci-Fi. The Thoughtcrime Podcast is beginning to build a modest audience and I’ve gotten to talk to and learn from a number of new indie authors. The blog is trucking along as well with roughly the same amount of traffic as earlier in the summer.
The Fifth World 3 is complete and I finished revisions on The Fifth World. The first book in the trilogy will be re-released with the revisions and a new cover. The problem is cost. Prescient Sci-Fi is still in the financing phase and can’t move forward with a release until the Winter in early 2016.
Self-publishing or indie publishing is my preferred route for a number of reasons but since things aren’t moving fast enough, I’ve decided to shop around the Mek series to literary agents and perhaps find a traditional publisher for it. If there are no bites after eight or nine months, then it will be back to Plan A.
Enough about business.
I have three completed episodes of the Mek Series and am beginning episode 4. I’ve also decided to begin a new writing project, a sci-fi/legal thriller. I’ll have more details on that soon.
My first love is science fiction and it is what I want to write currently but it is not the only thing I want to write. For a while now I’ve had a legal thriller in me that I wanted to put out there but the idea was not fully developed. It was also important to finish what I started with The Fifth World and the Mek series. There have also been a couple ideas for technothrillers similar to Michael Crichton bouncing around in my head. Those are probably years off.
On top of that, I’ve finished three short stories and submitted two of them to e-magazines. No bites yet but I’ve definitely built up some confidence on writing short stories. For the first few years of this whole writing thing, I was only interested in writing novels or novellas. In the last year or so, I’ve started to see the value of quality short stories from both a literary and business standpoint.
I’ll let you know as soon as one makes it into an e-zine.
For now, it’s back to work on Mek #4.
J
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