News Update – Projects, Projects, Projects

I’ve been considering what I’d like to write next. I’ve hit my goal of 50 flash fictions, and while I enjoy writing them, I’m getting the itch to tackle a longer project again. The short works were a nice and much-needed break from finishing A Girl Called Snort, The Squire, and Buckethead last year.

I’ve got a few things to “tidy up” before I embark on a new project though. I don’t do much in the way of Project Updates here. (I do on my podcast, though.) Here’s a brief rundown of things I’m in the middle of:

• Revising Buckethead for some sort of publication
• Revising my 50 flash fictions for print, most likely as part of a fundraising project at the school I teach at.
• Editing/layout for The Day After, a genre-spanning collection of short stories to which I contributed.

These will take some time, but none of them involved creation. I need to tidy them up and get them out of the way. After that….

Well, here’s the current plan. Once upon a time, like 6-7 years ago, I finished my first novel, Trouble on the Horizon. It’s a fantasy adventure with lots of entertaining characters, the most important of which is Strin Telnok, local hero, and his stubborn, hot-headed apprentice Fred. Sometime after that, I finished its sequel, The Remnant of Dreams. Then I abandoned the series to complete other works. The last few years, I’ve completed many of those works, in one form or another. It’s time I get back to Strin and Fred. They’ve been left hanging long enough. (Far too long, a few of my early fans insist.)