Writing second novel...

Work is progressing on my second novel.  I'm about 10,000 words into it.  I'm aiming for 80,000 words.  I hope to have it complete by July 1, 2015.

Great used book hunt...

I found a used book by Philip Jose Farmer yesterday.  I want to broaden my knowledge of commercial speculative fiction.  I'd read Farmer in the past.  But I can't recall what I read.  I also picked up Elizabeth Moon's Victory Conditions, Ben Bova's Orion and King Arthur, John Scalzi's Old Man's War, Gini Koch's Alien vs. Alien, and RM Meluch's Tour of the Merrimack:  The Myriad/Wolf Star.

I'm also looking for Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice and Stephen Baxter's Ultima.  I also have two WH40K Horus Heresy novels to read at some point, too.  There are other books I want to get.  However, I'll have to see what I can afford electronically.  Most of my new purchases will probably be ebooks.  They're normally cheaper and don't take up any space on my bookshelves.  However, I've been able to get new paperbacks cheaper than the ebooks editions recently.

Rather strange...  

Building literary agent database...

I put together a literary agent database of possible literary agents.  I have about a dozen agents, authors, and books so far.  I'll add more as I go.  I spent the weekend book shopping.  I bought books of different sci-fi/fantasy authors I need to read to know what's out there commercially.

I did start a new project.  It's a speculative fiction novel about interstellar colonization.  I don't want to give much away.  I hope it will be rather original when I get done with the rough draft.  I'm trying to write at least 2000 words/per week.  I should be done with the rough draft by the end of June 2016...