…because I can’t put my hands on any pictures of Created Stuff right now but hey! It’s February! Which means it’s time for the blog to resurrect out of the ashes of the holiday season.
(Literal ashes here in Australia, oy.)
Just going to aim for quick updates for the next little bit while I get back into the habit of blogging, so for today, you get a publishing/scheduling update!
A Fox Of Storms And Starlight is now official: the cover was released as part of the #AuthorsForFiries charity auction early in January. The book is in final edits now, due in about a week. As soon as I have a blurb, preorders will go up, so I’ll let you know about that really soon. And the book will be out on May 7!
Other things. I just completed an online science fiction course, which was amazing, and I wrote three complete, finished short stories for it. Super pleased with that as an outcome, and as a bonus, I really like the stories, too. Two of them will come out as Inklets eventually (2022, since that’s where we’re up to in the schedule, ermagersh!!), but one of them is an awkward length: at just under 8k, it’s too long for an Inklet (which cap out at 6-and-a-half), but significantly shorter than Inkprint’s current shortest stand-along (Dreaming of Forests, at 13.5k). So. Not sure what I’ll do with it yet.
Next up is Kaditeos 1.5, a novella from Chiara and Reth’s POVs called Define Good. Then the rest of the year should be split between Mercury’s second book, How Not To Ring The Hero’s Bell, and the second Storm Foxes book, tentatively titled A Stag Of Hope And Memory. (That will change, because technically it’s not a stag, but a deer. So.)
Plus there are two more workshops I’m doing, one in April and one in September, so at least 6 more short stories, 3 for each.
All in all, a busy year of writing – but it’s really good to be back into the rhythm of writing decent monthly quantities again after the pits of last year 🙂