Wow, it’s been forever since I last blogged. One of my real-life friends even asked me why I never post anything anymore. That’s when you know you’ve fallen off the face of the Earth.<\/p>\n
In truth, there’s not a whole lot to report. I’m plugging away on Heart of the Nebula,<\/strong> making good progress. My goal is to finalize this draft before the new year. After that, it’s off to the first readers, who should be pretty happy to see another Gaia Nova<\/strong> novel. It’s been far too long since I’ve written one of those.<\/p>\n As for Friends in Command (Sons of the Starfarers: Book IV),<\/strong> the first draft has some problems that can only be fixed by throwing in another viewpoint character. For that reason, I probably won’t be publishing it until February or March. I could<\/em> drop everything and try to push it out by the end of January, but I want to make sure that I’m putting out the best possible book that I can. Besides, there are other pots on the back burner that I need to stir.<\/p>\n Speaking of pots and back burners, while I was at my sister’s for Thanksgiving, we got to talking about all the cooking and gardening that I’ve been doing recently, and she suggested in jest that I start a homemaking blog. Well. I have to admit, it sounds like fun. I’m going to write it under a pseudonym, so I don’t want to say too much about it, but it’s going to be about the intersection between homemaking, emergency preparedness, and self-reliance.<\/p>\n Of course, I’ve got a lot of other work to do before I can afford to spend much time on a hobby blog. So at this point, I’m just trying to keep my head above water. With the holidays coming on, there’s a lot<\/em> of publishing stuff that I need to get done, on top of all the writing. But don’t worry, I’ll still find time to post a thought or two on this blog. And I plan to run a few more Goodreads giveaways in the future, so keep an eye out for that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow, it’s been forever since I last blogged. One of my real-life friends even asked me why I never post anything anymore. That’s when you know you’ve fallen off the face of the Earth. In truth, there’s not a whole lot to report. I’m plugging away on Heart of the Nebula, making good progress. My… Continue reading Back from unannounced hiatus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[957,409,460,855],"tags":[390,42,966],"class_list":["post-9646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssf-iv","category-gaia-nova","category-hn","category-ssf","tag-blogging","tag-frustrations","tag-hobbies","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2vA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9647,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions\/9647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}