Writing Update

Because I know you're all sitting on the edge of your seats when it comes to my writing projects, here are some quick updates. 

My fantasy novel Broken Gods has been read through the Cooper Book Club, and I have a few pages of notes and many updates to make.  Some deal with smaller things, some deal with bigger parts of the story.  This by far the longest and most ambitious book I've written, so it doesn't surprise me that there are more things to consider and edits to make.  That is what I will be working on for a little while, editing until I feel happy enough with it to send out a round of query letters for it to literary agents.  One of my worries is the word count, which was already higher than it maybe should be at 124,000 words; after a bit of editing, it's now at 128,000.  We'll see if I try to cut it down before sending out queries.

I have three potential ideas as my next project, which will be my seventh novel.  Each of them is at least somewhat science fiction, with at least two of them having some fantasy as well. 

The first involves two completely separate but connected realms, where one realm uses the other as a sort of gladiatorial arena.  Working title: The Timeless Shrine.

The second involves a militarist, global government who accidentally turns some of its own subjects into some sort of superhero (magic system still in development).  Working title: Emmers.

The third is more straight-up science fiction, and involves humans landing on a planet inhabited by the aliens that randomly show up in my earlier book, Spaceman Steve and the Quest for the Awesome Artifact.  One neat twist here (I think) is that one of the main point-of-view characters will be one of the aliens.  Working title: Lutis.

Still deciding which to move forward with at this point, but I hope to do something with all of these in time.