Hello, fellow readers!
I’m thrilled to turn the page on 2020 with hope for a better 2021. The last 10 months have been rough for many. While we’ve been some of the more fortunate, it is distressing to see how hard life can be during a pandemic. I wish you all the best for the new year.
But I’m not thinking much about 2021 these days, in truth. Instead, I’m thinking about the year 2033 in a place that was once the United States of America, but is no longer. Life is hard there, too, though much of the pain self-inflicted, evolving out of the best of intentions and a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature. But hope remains, mostly (and literally) underground, that the Society that sprung from the intellectual rot of a once-great nation will be itself overthrown.
I’m talking about my New Novel, of course.
Right now, I’m at 76,000 words and doing a full edit to ensure the plot is tight enough to hold up the last third of the book. My goal is to write the rest of the novel in January, then edit it twice in February before submitting it for a professional edit at the end of that month. If the timing works as expected, I should be publishing in May, at the latest.
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, the book is dystopian urban fantasy that’s a mashup of George Orwell’s 1984 and the movie V for Vendetta, with its own unique twist on what happens after a nation degrades and falls apart. Though I started writing with the style of #nerdpire in mind, there are no longer any similarities between it and New Novel. If anything, New Novel is darker than anything I’ve written, without wallowing in the darkness. There’s the occasional bit of humor, but the topic is too serious to permit consistent giggles.
Well, that’s enough of a tease for now. Enjoy the turn of the year, read some #nerdpire to spice up your free time, or start the Psycons & Grace series to enjoy some psychology-based science fantasy. New Novel will have an official name and be on Amazon soon.