Well even though I have ignored my blog way too much last year, things are looking up for 2014.

The great desert produced by my sudden lack of a day job became lush when I was employed again, and even working 50 hours or more a week I am producing a lot of words for my novel-in-progress.

The Latest version of this military SF adventure story is now north of 96 thousand words and it’s looking to land in the area of 115 to 120. Then there will be revision, edits, and the beta read. the last two books have not survived their beat readers, we will see about this one.

After that I plan two novels as self-publishing experiments.

First up will be Vulcan’s Forge, a science-fiction noir in the tradition of The Maltese Falcon and Double Indemnity. It’s destined for self publishing because I expect it to be quite small as books go, around 50 to 60 thousand words. Unless you are an established star, publishers are generally not interested in such slim volumes.

Then will be my ‘screw you I writing it anyway book,’ currently titled The Illusion. It will be my foray into dystopic fiction. I looking at self-pub on this one because it will be, by far, my bleakest story. It would make an excellent French film from the 70s. It is unlikely to go to beat read as I am very sure that many of my usual beta readers would hate the book on political grounds. This will be a political book, but that doesn’t mean you should read too much of my personal views from the text. I can tell you this though it will never ever win a Prometheus award.