Rebecca Laffar-Smith
I've currently got my attention scattered on quite a few projects. It's exciting to see them all evolving through their various stages of development.
In Fantasy Fiction:
The Blood of the Nagaran series is well on it's way. Books two and three in the series are written but undergoing solid edits. Book one in the series is being revisited to age it down to Young Adult rather than the New Adult the existing edition has been. And books four and five in the series are planned with writing ready to begin later this year. There is also a half-written spin off in the story world that I'll be finishing.
In Romance Fiction:
I'm developing a detailed story world around a fictionalised representation of 1070's Normandy. In this story world I'm developing lands and their nobles and peons with rich potential for an expansive series of romance. There are already five stories in this world that are being planned and there is a LOT of room for quite an expansive series of stand-alone medieval romances coming from this story world. I'm very excited to see it evolve but at the moment it is deep in the research and planning stage. I'm getting to know my characters, my world, and the medieval tone of the stories that will come from it.
In Children's Fiction:
I'm looking for a publisher for One Last Goodbye which is a beautiful story ideal for an older children's picture book for 9-12yos offering insight into the beautiful and touching funeral traditions around the world.
My kids and I are also well under way planning book five of the P.I. Penguin series and bouncing around ideas for books 6 through 12. No set schedule on when those will be released but now that I'm no longer accepting submissions at Aulexic I have more time to spend on these books rather than on books by other authors.
In Non-Fiction:
I definitely want to get a print and digital edition of my Plot Storming book ready in time for the Write Along The Highway Writers Festival this year. I've had some great feedback where people asked that I include more examples from other books/movies and so I'll be adding those. I'm also trying to work out the best way to include the worksheets and it's possible give the increasing scope of the book that the worksheets will be an additional "workbook" set up to allow writers to purchase a workbook for each story they are developing. I'm very excited about this and it needs to be on a very tight deadline to make it for 2017 so I have to bump this one to the forefront of my schedule at the moment.
In Aulexic:
I still need to finalise my obligations to the writers currently signed to Aulexic. We are winding down the publishing house. It had grown bigger than I could manage and so instead I'll be reducing it's load to a small imprint that publishers mostly the work of Bec J. Smith. But before it's wound down completely I need to do layouts and design for two titles I signed before we started winding down. I'll then offer those to the authors along with their rights and show them how to set the books up so that they can publish and distribute them as indie authors. It's sad to wind down those beautiful opportunities but it has been important for me to return my focus to my own creations rather than taking on more than I can manage for myself. As you can see, I have plenty of my own writing to keep me very busy, not to mention coordinating a three month long writers festival that spans the entire state, so it has been important to make sacrifices and choose to let go of certain projects.
The exciting thing is, there is a LOT in the works. And I'm very excited about everything I'm working on. :-)
In Fantasy Fiction:
The Blood of the Nagaran series is well on it's way. Books two and three in the series are written but undergoing solid edits. Book one in the series is being revisited to age it down to Young Adult rather than the New Adult the existing edition has been. And books four and five in the series are planned with writing ready to begin later this year. There is also a half-written spin off in the story world that I'll be finishing.
In Romance Fiction:
I'm developing a detailed story world around a fictionalised representation of 1070's Normandy. In this story world I'm developing lands and their nobles and peons with rich potential for an expansive series of romance. There are already five stories in this world that are being planned and there is a LOT of room for quite an expansive series of stand-alone medieval romances coming from this story world. I'm very excited to see it evolve but at the moment it is deep in the research and planning stage. I'm getting to know my characters, my world, and the medieval tone of the stories that will come from it.
In Children's Fiction:
I'm looking for a publisher for One Last Goodbye which is a beautiful story ideal for an older children's picture book for 9-12yos offering insight into the beautiful and touching funeral traditions around the world.
My kids and I are also well under way planning book five of the P.I. Penguin series and bouncing around ideas for books 6 through 12. No set schedule on when those will be released but now that I'm no longer accepting submissions at Aulexic I have more time to spend on these books rather than on books by other authors.
In Non-Fiction:
I definitely want to get a print and digital edition of my Plot Storming book ready in time for the Write Along The Highway Writers Festival this year. I've had some great feedback where people asked that I include more examples from other books/movies and so I'll be adding those. I'm also trying to work out the best way to include the worksheets and it's possible give the increasing scope of the book that the worksheets will be an additional "workbook" set up to allow writers to purchase a workbook for each story they are developing. I'm very excited about this and it needs to be on a very tight deadline to make it for 2017 so I have to bump this one to the forefront of my schedule at the moment.
In Aulexic:
I still need to finalise my obligations to the writers currently signed to Aulexic. We are winding down the publishing house. It had grown bigger than I could manage and so instead I'll be reducing it's load to a small imprint that publishers mostly the work of Bec J. Smith. But before it's wound down completely I need to do layouts and design for two titles I signed before we started winding down. I'll then offer those to the authors along with their rights and show them how to set the books up so that they can publish and distribute them as indie authors. It's sad to wind down those beautiful opportunities but it has been important for me to return my focus to my own creations rather than taking on more than I can manage for myself. As you can see, I have plenty of my own writing to keep me very busy, not to mention coordinating a three month long writers festival that spans the entire state, so it has been important to make sacrifices and choose to let go of certain projects.
The exciting thing is, there is a LOT in the works. And I'm very excited about everything I'm working on. :-)
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