Posted on November 17, 2008

On long delays… And some news.

As is obvious to anyone who’s been following my latest serial is aware, it’s been slow going. This isn’t the result of a lack of drive or interest on my part, I assure you. Rather it’s a factor of the weight of other writing obligations and the need to get THE HOLE revised and off to publication or placed in front of potential agents.  Work on KARAOKE QUINTESSENCE continues, but at a snail’s pace.

That said, I do have a project I’m kicking around that I’m hoping to get some feedback on from my readers.  I have quite a few short stories I’ve written over the years and countless ideas for more.  I love writing serial novels, but short fiction is a blast, too.  Based on my experiences with–and the success so far of–the Amazon Kindle e-book version of THE HOLE (about which I plan to post more soon), I’m inclined to continue the model.  My intention is to put out a short book worth of stories and serials on a quarterly basis.  I may bump that up to six times a year depending on how productive I am.  Each issue would be priced reasonably, be better edited than what’s been going up on the website (I problem I’m noticing, and apologize for, as I do my revisions), and, most significantly, also available in print.

If all goes well, I hope to have the first issue ready for purchase on Amazon around the start of the new year.  I have enough stuff written at this point to put the book together, so it’s just a matter of finding the time to do the design, editing, and layouts.  This initial issue would include several stories I’ve already made available online, the first part of KARAOKE QUINTESSENCE, one new piece of fiction I wrote a month or so ago, and, finally, a short story providing some background on THE HOLE.  This last I’m really excited to write, as I’ll get to spill the secrets of how the world in the novel got to be the way it is.  Future issues would all never before seeing writing–though I’m going to have to think about how to handle future serial works.

All that said, I’d love to hear what you think.  Would a quarterly short story and serial publication be of interest?  Thanks for taking the time to let me know your thoughts.  Now I need to plunge back into the rewriting process.  It’s good to spend some time with Elliot and Evajean again…