If there’s one thing that the events of the weekend have proven, it’s that time machines aren’t going to be invented for at least another few hundred years.\u00a0Because if time travelers from our immediate future were in our midst, I have no doubt that either Hillary or Trump (or both, Godwilling!) would have been assassinated by now.<\/p>\n
Of course, it could just be that things are going to collapse so hard that it wouldn’t make a difference which one of them became president, but whatever. No sense in being overly optimistic.<\/p>\n
Last week was a total wash after the motorcycle accident, but I’m\u00a0slowly getting back into the saddle. I’ve got the comments back from my first readers for\u00a0Gunslinger to the Stars<\/a>,<\/strong> so that’s\u00a0the WIP I’m picking up next. Deadline for draft 2.0 is October 29, but I may be able to get it done sooner than that. Hell, I may even get it done this week.<\/p>\n Publishing it is another question. Finances are tight, and it’s been a bad year for sales, so I’m not sure when I’ll be able to produce a quality book. Right now, I’m shooting for\u00a0an April release date. That may actually be a good thing, though as it gives me time to write and release a few tie-in short stories. But\u00a0regardless, it’s going to come out early next year.<\/p>\n Between now and then, I’ll probably release a couple of short stories and story collections. The shorts are selling better than I expected, and they make great giveaways for InstaFreebie and my mailing list. I’ve still got a bunch of stories on submission, but some of them are coming off soon, and others (like the tie-ins I want to write) would probably do better as direct to publish anyways.<\/p>\n