It's been so long since I posted, I had to go back and read what I'd blogged about almost three weeks ago. Since then, a couple of interesting things have happened:
1. I turned in 1/2 of my sooper-sekrit project. Yes, 1/2 - it's been split in two, and I'm right now polishing Part Two (this is what has kept me so busy, along with sending out a few more submissions). I already have news about the fate of Part One (it's good news), but the future of Part Two is very much up in the air. It all depends on the needs of the project as a whole. More I cannot say. Why like Yoda am I speaking? :P
2. After this project is completely out the door, I'm pretty much finished with the short stuff for the rest of the year. There are a few stories that I finished earlier in the year that I'll edit/revise and send out, and a couple more prose poems I want to work on, but those are going to take second place to rewriting my old biomechanical spider/steampunk novelette "The Girls of the World" into a full-blown novella. And I want to start working on the outline for my novel. Those two projects will take up the rest of 2007.
3. Travel news! My sister will be staying in Leuven, Belgium this August and September (as a guest lecturer at the university), and she's invited me to come visit her. So, at the end of August, I'll fly over to Belgium for a few days, then we'll both take the train to Paris for a bit to visit friends of hers, then it's down to Venice for four-five days, before heading back through Germany to Leuven. It's my mid-life version of the Grand Tour, and I'm pretty excited about it. Especially amazing is that to date, I've made enough money from my writing to pay for the plane ticket. That's something to be proud of. I've also made tentative plans for an even more spectacular trip in 2009, but I'm not going to spill the beans until it's finalized. Let's just say it involves tropical things, and maybe some ruins and dormant volcanoes!
I guess that's all the news. Ok, so maybe my life is still not very interesting. I think this is the part where I should insert some Shakespearean dialog. ;P
1. I turned in 1/2 of my sooper-sekrit project. Yes, 1/2 - it's been split in two, and I'm right now polishing Part Two (this is what has kept me so busy, along with sending out a few more submissions). I already have news about the fate of Part One (it's good news), but the future of Part Two is very much up in the air. It all depends on the needs of the project as a whole. More I cannot say. Why like Yoda am I speaking? :P
2. After this project is completely out the door, I'm pretty much finished with the short stuff for the rest of the year. There are a few stories that I finished earlier in the year that I'll edit/revise and send out, and a couple more prose poems I want to work on, but those are going to take second place to rewriting my old biomechanical spider/steampunk novelette "The Girls of the World" into a full-blown novella. And I want to start working on the outline for my novel. Those two projects will take up the rest of 2007.
3. Travel news! My sister will be staying in Leuven, Belgium this August and September (as a guest lecturer at the university), and she's invited me to come visit her. So, at the end of August, I'll fly over to Belgium for a few days, then we'll both take the train to Paris for a bit to visit friends of hers, then it's down to Venice for four-five days, before heading back through Germany to Leuven. It's my mid-life version of the Grand Tour, and I'm pretty excited about it. Especially amazing is that to date, I've made enough money from my writing to pay for the plane ticket. That's something to be proud of. I've also made tentative plans for an even more spectacular trip in 2009, but I'm not going to spill the beans until it's finalized. Let's just say it involves tropical things, and maybe some ruins and dormant volcanoes!
I guess that's all the news. Ok, so maybe my life is still not very interesting. I think this is the part where I should insert some Shakespearean dialog. ;P
