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NEWS AND VIEWS - JULY 2024
Behold, the cover for the latest Signalverse novel. 
Beautiful, no? The art and design is by Tom Martin, who has done a number of covers for me over the years. I really like his stuff. This is the tenth and possibly final book in the Signalverse superhero series, and it's easily the most ambitious Signalverse novel I've written so far. It runs almost 400 pages and has multiple POV's -- Jack from The Adventures of Jack and Miracle Girl, Raye from Sneak and the Shadow of Darkplanet, Ally from Champions Weekly, and Chance from Galatea and the Dupe all appear. It ties up some loose ends and wraps up several storylines, and I've included a dramatis personae as well, because there's a lot of characters to keep track of in this one. Like I mentioned last month, I'm thinking this might be a good place to end the series. I do have ideas for several more novels, and I'd happily keep writing these books if I thought there was an audience for them, but it just doesn't seem like people are interested. Shrug. But give me a few years; maybe I'll change my mind. Anyway, I'll probably be releasing the book around the end of August. I also started writing a new fantasy story this month, tentatively titled The Swordsman and the Shadow. I'm about 14,000 words into it, and I'm liking what I've come up with so far. I may wind up serializing this one on Royal Road or some other website, but I haven't quite made up my mind about that yet. Nothing else happening on the writing front, really. As for my day-to-day life, it's been more of the same: I'm still working my way through Unicorn Overlord (an excellent game) and Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone, which is about the Karluk expedition. It's not really that long of a book, but reading about people dying on horrible mismanaged Arctic expeditions is kind of depressing, and I've been finding myself reluctant to pick it up. That's all for now. See you next month! |