The Next One

So, yeah.  It's been a while.

My wife and I went on a ten day road trip, but I'll detail that more later, and include pictures.  But it was a good time.

On May 29, I started a new job.  I had worked at FLS Connect for nearly seven years, and was both sad and happy to be moving on.  I miss the people there, but the time came to move on.  I found the new opportunity at Helgeson Enterprises.  It is a good position, with room for growth and learning, and a better salary.  At this point, I've only been here a month, but I'm getting into the swing of things.

One other exciting thing about the new job is that it has a very good chance of speeding up our house buying.  Unless something changes, we should now be able to start looking this coming November, with the aim of having a house by the end of February.  I'm exceptionally excited to get out of the apartment and into a house.  There are lots of little things I am excited for.  There were be extra expenses and other frustrating things about house ownership, but overall, I'm pumped.

My fantasy novel Queen of Men is now at about 73000 words.  I will soon be having some other people read it.  I hope to add some more beef to it, getting it closer to 80000 words.  It is my goal to submit this one to literary agents by the end of the year, assuming it passes the tests of the readers.  I also created a cover for it, using an image I pulled from Google Images.  Not that the cover would actually be used if the book was published, but it's something for me to use in the meantime.

In other writing-related news, I think I may have found my new project, for after Queen of Men.  It would be a shift from the first two novels, and would possibly be more science fiction than fantasy.  I don't have a lot of details yet, but I like the way it's going so far.  More details to come on this, when I do more work on it.