State of the Author

(Image is of Freya, a tortoiseshell tabby, sitting curiously on a new faux-leather kitchen chair. A second chair is dismantled on the ground next to her) Well, if the state of the author is “busy,” I hope that helps explain why there was no update in July. Finishing up Keepers of the Flesh while getting Alien Olympus out absolutely ate my time around the turn of last month. (I still haven’t released the Ingram paperback of Alien Olympus, for that matter, as the initial proof I received wasn’t ... Read more »

To give you a sense of how my schedule is structured, I schedule edits for a year in September of the prior year. So at that point, I usually know what I am writing and have time slots set up for each book. The goal is to publish a novel every second month and to write a book in seven to eight weeks. There is an intentional disconnect between those two cycles, intended to let me get ahead and allow for projects that won’t get published straightaway. Right now, I am burning up all of the ... Read more »