Sorry not to post anything new in a while. This past week has been rather busy\/disorganized for me, which isn’t helped by the fact that I had my last wisdom tooth pulled today. I’ve swallowed so much blood that my mouth tastes like I’ve been sucking on an anvil, and I can also feel a piece of exposed bone with my tongue. Awesome.<\/p>\n
So I’m in the middle of Strangers in Flight (Sons of the Starfarers: Book III),<\/strong> and it looks like I’ll have to do a fairly substantial revision. That’s going to throw off the publication schedule a bit, but hopefully not more than a couple of weeks. Comrades in Hope (Sons of the Starfarers: Book II)<\/strong> will be out by the end of June, and Strangers in Flight<\/strong> will be out sometime in August. After that, I’ll take a break to work on some other projects and write the next three Sons of the Starfarers<\/strong> books.<\/p>\n I really enjoy writing in series of novella-length books. I know that a lot of readers complain when writers chop their stories into parts rather than packing them all into one full-length novel, but novellas come a lot more natural to me than novels. I probably won’t go any shorter than Star Wanderers: Outworlder (Part I),<\/strong> which technically is a novelette–novelettes lean more toward short stories in terms of structure, whereas novellas have a lot more room to play with (but not so much that you get lost in it).<\/p>\n What I’m thinking about doing from now on is writing novellas to start off with, and if a series does well (like Star Wanderers<\/strong>), to write a couple of full-length novels with the same characters. I can put out novellas a lot faster than I can put out novels, and putting them in series is a great way to build traction across a whole lot of books. And if the series is successful enough, then I know that a novel with the same characters will do fairly well too.<\/p>\n It’s kind of like Star Trek, in a way: it started as a TV series, then spun off a bunch of movies with the same characters. Which makes me wonder, why didn’t Voyager ever get a movie? Voyager was my favorite Star Trek series, and I totally think it deserved a movie or two.<\/p>\n In any case, I definitely want to write a Star Wanderers<\/strong> novel bringing back some of the main characters from that series. I’ll probably work on that after finishing Strangers in Flight,<\/strong> though with how long it takes me to write a novel, it may be a year before it’s ready for public consumption. It’s definitely on the list of books to write, though.<\/p>\n In the meantime, Sons of the Starfarers<\/strong> is going to consume all of my attention for the next month or so. I’d better get some sleep so I can work on it tomorrow. So much to do, so much to write … but I think you guys are really going to like it when it’s done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry not to post anything new in a while. This past week has been rather busy\/disorganized for me, which isn’t helped by the fact that I had my last wisdom tooth pulled today. 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