Sunday, February 12, 2017

Recent work has been short stories and novellas...

My recent work has been short stories and novellas.

I'm not sure why.  I don't know if the time I'm giving myself to write has something to do with it.  Or whether my muse has betrayed me into writing shorter fiction works.  I've spent a good part of the year editing a current work, Kepler Falling.  I finished the rough draft of my steampunk novella, Johannesburg Passage, in December 2016.

I also work a short story called Vanishing Point.  It was about a French MD who goes aboard an interstellar expedition to a tropical water world, only to be hijacked in space.  Which brings me to my current project, Eternity's Edge.  It is a sequel to Kepler Falling.  I'm about 2,000 words into it.  I have more to write this morning.  I hope it will lead into another novel.  My luck would be a novella...

Speaking of which, I've written four novellas in the past two years.  Those being Johannesburg Passage, Tales from the Red Planet, Ganbaatar, and Nordic Sun.  Tales from the Red Planet is the only one to be critiqued and ready for publication.  I also have Price of Command and the Desmon Singh stories, too.  They too have proved to be without a publisher also.

The only thing gaining traction this year is my poetry.  I have one chapbook ready for publication and a second chapbook in the process of being revised.  My poetry has always been one of my strong suites getting published. Recently, it hasn't proven to be the case.  I keep my rejection letters organized to see where I submit.  However, literary journals haven't been kind to me...