Jun 13, 2013
Jun 7, 2013
Happenings
A few things to report this week.
First, I'll be setting up a new website as a showcase for my writing. I might even buy a domain name later (we'll see), and it'll include a blog page—so this blog will be pretty much discontinued. I'm hoping to get this all set up in the next few days, so there might be one more post here, which is likely to be not much more than a link to the new site. Watch this space.
The big news, though, is that I now have a pretty firm release date for Mr. Gunn & Dr. Bohemia, the steampunk action/adventure that I've been working on for the last few months. Woohoo! Xchyler Publishing will be putting it out to the world on...
November 15, 2013
Put it on your calendar, gentle reader!
Between now and then, I have a lot of work to do. There are deadlines to be met with the editing, to get the typescript all ship-shape and Bristol fashion. Those deadlines are realistic, but I don't have time to slack. I did a bit of figuring of dates and times, and barring major problems I should have everything wrapped up with at least a couple of weeks to spare. But this is not a time to get complacent, so I’m going to be pretty busy for a few more weeks.
In other news, I finally heard back from Harper Voyager about those two rejected ‘scripts. It turns out that The Artemisia Chronicle was the script that was rejected in January, and Pavonis was the one that they kept hold of for seven months. That’s a surprise; Pavonis was my very first full-length work, and I know it wasn't great. I always thought Artemisia was the stronger and better-executed work. On the other hand, I don’t really know what criteria Harper were judging against. Pavonis is steampunk/SF, and Artemisia is more like gothic/SF. Maybe that’s the key.
I mentioned in the last post, that once Gunn & Bohemia is done I was planning on reworking Artemisia, applying all the lessons learned from my wonderful editing team at Xchyler. Since then I've thought a bit about that, and changed my mind. I really, really want to get back to Smoke & Mirrors and finish that first. It was left on the shelf in a half-done state—that is, I’d written about half of the first draft before shelving it to work on G&B. The plan now is to take it back a couple of steps and rework it, starting at the storyboard. Smoke is a steampunker—but it has a twist that, as far as I've been able to tell, will make it unique. And no, I’m saying no more at this time.
Once that’s done, I’ll probably go back and rework those older ‘scripts, possibly starting with Pavonis. But who knows?
But also... before I even begin that, I’m probably going to take some downtime and kick back with some gaming, and catch up with my reading. I’ll still be writing—I’m too addicted to writing now, and if I stopped for any length of time I’d probably have some kind of meltdown—but that writing is likely to be a short story or two, with a mind to getting them into anthologies (Xchyler publishes several anthologies every year; click here for details. The most recent one, Mechanized Masterpieces: A Steampunk Anthology, has had great reviews). It's been a long time since I wrote a shortie, and it'd be good to get something going in that direction.
That’s about it, I think. Until next time...
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