A glimpse into the future

As you might have noticed there was no What's Up Wednesday this past week. They've ended the blog hop. I'm a little disappointed and at the same time, not so much. It had a tendency toward being a bit repetitive some days. And there's nothing saying I can't keep you all updated without needing a reason. I should be doing it just because I want people to stay interested.

So that future I'm talking about. I've finished my first rounds of edits for Soldiers of the Sun. That should be out in late summer. I'm very excited for this. It's been a couple years since the novella came out. Geez, I need to be a faster writer (i.e. I need to quit dicking around on Facebook and the like and concentrate). I feel pretty good about this one. The first editor was very kind about her thoughts on the novel and really 98% of it was grammar but holy hell did that make me feel OLD! All the new grammar changes are wrong in regards to how I learned the rules. Seriously, if I had ever turned in anything the way CMoS has the rules now, I would have failed the writing assignment. I guess I need to go brush up but I'd rather sit in my dinosaur rut. It feels...bad to have to have so many changes made because I didn't know the rules had changed. I feel like a bother. The same thing happened to me with the very first story I sold to Dreamspinner when I didn't know the rule had changed about putting an 's on names that ended in S. Back in the day, you just put the apostrophe on the existing S. You wrote Jones' not Jones's. I should know. My actual surname ends in a S. That was a shock!

I'm still waiting to hear about the series status of this one though. It's complicated. It's actually a short story (now out of print) a novella and now the novel. In order it should be read Novella, Short Story and Novel (plus there are a couple other freebie shorts in there somewhere). And since Soldiers of the Sun makes for a good series name, I'm going to have to change the title. My favorite part, titling something. Gah.


I finished the first round of edits for my short story A Wolf in the Fold for the Wayward Ink press anthology Of Heaven and Hell which is due out just a few days before my birthday in June. I'm waiting on the second round. Much like the first, it was mostly those newish grammar rules. I feel pretty damn good that neither story needed major revisions (especially after what I went through with the last novella).

And that's what I know will be out in 2015 but obviously that's not all I'm working on.

I'm still working on my Vampires in Vegas. They're my camp nano project. I have to get them done. I simply have to. It would be a shame if this flounders now. It's more than halfway there but this one seems to fight me. Vampires. Vegas. Sounds like it should write itself. Maybe I need a trip out there...

I have that SF story with Kaleo and Aneurin still perking away in my head. It would be a duology if nothing else. I have enough for that. In this one, Aneurin is part of the wealthy upper class in the quadrant. He's a geneticist by trade, not really having much to do with the business side of the family. He's given what his friend thinks is a willing courtesan for his birthday. To Aneurin's horror, Kaleo and all the other Toys are actually sex slaves. Aneurin joins up with the movement to ban the practice and in the meantime, loses his heart to the vulnerable but at the same time hard young man who has been given into his care.

I recently discussed the merman idea I have and you can find it here

I have so more ideas on tap but I think I'll save those for another update.

What I desperately need to do is a website. I was thinking of Wordpress. If anyone wants to share the pros/cons of wordpress (or whatever DIY website you're using) I'd appreciate it.