I don’t talk much about writing here event though the initial purpose of this site was to showcase my writing. I have another DCFC post planned, but I just got my biweekly soccer-related boost in views so I should save it for a little bit.

Bin a bit of a hit-n-miss few days. Windshield is cracked from a rock strike. Of course it isn’t covered by the warranty so it is up to me to fix it. It won’t cost more than $200 but still. For fuck’s sake.

So right now I have two books in various states of completion. Sun-King, book 1 in my still-unnamed series, is in the hands of its last first reader. My hope is to get it back during the Holiday Break and do all editing then. Originally it was supposed to publish in time for ConFusion in Detroit. I was going to try to get on a few panels and do what I do best – talk until people either hate or love me. With no book, that is not happening.

But the time-line is pretty much solidified. By January have editing complete. Get it to a copy editor. By March have those edits and formatting completed. Internal formatting includes having the map completed. In March I’ll order my proofs and ensure everything looks good.

I actually have cover art. We’ll see how the printing handles that. I can always work with my wife to whip something else up if all else fails.

That means I hope to be published before DCFC hits the field in May and my attentions are moved elsewhere.

Meanwhile, book two (Yew-Throne) is sitting and resting while I try to recharge my batteries. I was consistently hitting about 2-3k words per week for a while but half-way through November I tripped up and have since put it to the side. I am hoping for a late 2015/early 2016 publishing time frame.

I’m hoping to get some wind in my sails and get going with that again. I am at about 45k words aim to finish around 110-120k. I have the next chapter or two in my head, but the transition is keeping up at night. I am one of those people who writes very linearly. I write things in order: 1-2-3. It doesn’t matter if later the order is 1-3-2, but especially with chronological things I write in order. It helps me keep facts, characters, and settings straight since my notes are rather sparse if they exist beyond an email memo at all.

So I have a plan of sorts. But as of writing it is waiting for people to get back or waiting for the creative juices to start flowing again.

Waiting waiting waiting…