No, I’m not going to prank you. I’m just getting my feet under me from last week and that’s how I feel.
For those that don’t follow my daily walk, I spent last week (Mar 24-Apr 1) in Lincoln City, OR, at a writer’s workshop on Character Voice and Setting run by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Yikes. Major brain strain and HUGE feeling of accomplishment coming out on this side. All you people will reap the benefit from that with the new writing that’ll be coming out over the next few weeks.
Ridan surfaced right after my last post — but has since disappeared again. I’m fairly confident things will be getting back on track this month.
There are some things that I probably need to make clear.
1. I can’t tell you everything I know.
2. I don’t threaten.
While I appreciate that many of you are frustrated by the situation, ultimately it’s a business decision that I’m constantly evaluating. The books will be available for decades after they get through the pipeline. They’ll have the opportunity to find hundreds of thousands of new fans over the next half century or so. They’re going to be around for a long time. This situation is temporary.
So.
Looking forward, there will be new work coming out this month. I’m not sure exactly what because my gray matter is still recovering from the rotor-rootering I got in Lincoln City last week. I can tell you my writing has improved by at least an order of magnitude. Just seeing the difference between what I wrote the week before I went compared to what I’ve written since I got back has proven that to me. It will be reflected in the Ravenwood sequel even though that means it’ll probably be delayed.
There’s a space opera short going into the Galileo Games anthology Have Blaster, Will Travel. You can learn more about that at their Kickstarter page. If you want to contribute to that, it’ll help out (and for a buck they’ll send you my story).
Oh, sorry about the comments. I logged in tonight to a mess of moderation that I’ve neglected. I think there were only two spammers in there, but the rest of them are now released. I didn’t realize how many had built up.
That’s about it for now. I need to get some words herded.
