Most people do an
inventory of sorts at the end of the year, and I guess I’m no different,
especially this year. Why? Because everything’s changing. Sometime around
mid-June I felt it, that my writing was transitioning. I was wrapping up the
Newstead Saga and that was part of it, but not everything. I had lots of story
ideas, but none of them drew the same amount of passion that Newstead did, and
having had that, I wasn’t willing to settle for less. If I didn’t live and
breathe it, I wasn’t writing it. And then I did. I wrote a short story that I
submitted to the IWSG anthology contest that I consider to be my most important
piece of work. It took less than three days to write and I still cry every time
I read it. So how do you top that? I don’t know. But it’s more than that. I’ll
let you in a little secret. For the past few months I’ve been developing a new
book format—something completely different. I can’t wait to share it with you.
Come back on January 6th for the big reveal. So with all that, how
do I focus on writing another full length novel?
Simple. I don’t.
I do something else
instead, something I’m just as passionate about, something like transitioning
into that new format I mentioned. I hope to publish all my books that way and
then offer it through Black and White. So look for us opening up for submissions
sometime early next year. Also, I have a short story being published in an
anthology hosted by Randi Lee, and I have a piece of flash fiction in January’s
edition of Jack Sprat Press—I’ll post the link when that comes out. That’s
about it for me. How about you—any big changes coming in the New Year?
