2014 is shaping up to be a fairly busy year.
The novel
Towards the end of last year I finished the first complete
draft of the first two novels in The Lenticular Series: The Way of the Kresh and The
Kresh War. TWotK received a
thorough workout at the semi-regular Serapeum Novel Workshop from fellow
writers Rjurik Davidson, Andrew Macrae, Matthew Chrulew and Peter Hickman, which
helped me sharpen some of the early motivation for my protagonist. Later this
month I’ll be getting some structural notes on both novels from Stephanie
Smith. After that I’ll be working on the second draft of TWotK with a view to creating a polished final draft for submission
and then swinging into a rewrite of TKW.
The magazine
coeur de lion’s latest venture is a free, and DRM-free,
emagazine called Dimension6. The first reading period for the mag opens this
Sunday and I’m really excited to see the kind of stories we get. As a free mag
the aim is to promote coeur de lion and the individual writers appearing between
its electronic covers. The first issue is due out on 4 April, but there’s
plenty to do between now and then. More information at the coeur de lion website.
The business
Me and my partner, Nicola O’Shea, have now taken the plunge
and started a complete book editing and file conversion service for authors. You
can find our more at the ebookedit website.
The reading
I’m a notoriously slow reader, and I’m currently straining
to finish the Aurealis Award Science Fiction Novel category reading for 2013. After that I’ll return to my semi-regular reviewing gig for The NewtownReview of Books.
