I remember last December in 2023 I kept thinking, “Oh, I’ll write the year 4 wrap up when I have news to share. It shouldn’t be too long into the new year.”
But then February came and went. Then March, April, and May. Then summer arrived and it felt silly to write something up that essentially said: “I can’t talk about what I’m working on, but I am working on things that I’m excited about. I hope to be able to share news soon.”
Then Worldcon arrived in August (fantastic time in Glasgow btw) and I still couldn’t talk about what I was working on. And it felt even weirder since I was at that point deep into a project that I loved.
Now here I am in December again, wanting to talk about what I’m working on, and I can’t.
So, I’ll just give a quick slightly vague wrap up in the meantime:
I wrote a book I’m quite excited about that’s different and unique that I can’t talk about yet. This will (likely) be the next thing I will publish.
I worked on projects in a different medium that may or may not ever see the light of day. Hopefully answers will arrive in 2025.
I worked on a book I thought was cool, but no one else liked it. Spent some time revising it and still think fondly on a few of the concepts and whether I need to get more opinions to figure it out.
I worked on a book I loved, only to realize after a few drafts something was wrong with it, and I didn’t know what. So now it’s sitting in a drawer.
I did my usual thing and wrote a book in a genre I didn’t know too well, failed miserably at it, but learned a lot about a different style.
Wrote about 5-6 30-40k samples of different books and tried out new things.
Working on a new book that seems pretty cool to me.
This update is obviously a bit smaller than normal, and there is no one who wants to talk about what I’m doing more than me. I’m hoping I’ll be able to more freely at the start of 2025. So expect a better update in like…April? That sounds nice.
In the meantime, Happy New Year!