So my last post was... almost last year. I'm apparently not good at blogging about fiction-related things. (But I do have a blog with trip reports from my various adventures now so if you really wanna know what I'm doing you're probably more likely to find info there!)
As for the fiction-writing side of things I've been very busy. I've submitted to various mags and publishers and burned myself out. I wrote... idk 500k words already this year? And I'm also feeling the burnout from that. (Not that that'll in any way stop me.)
I'm also getting ready to publish some more stories to my Amazon/KDP account. These will be four full novels of 60-100k words. I've been working on those for a long time now and feel like they're ready. I'm also exhausted waiting for publishers/agents/whatever to get responses to me so self-publish it is.
The four novels are:
Glass
This one is a treat. It's about a machine, an object owned by an inventor, a bit like if clockwork girls were real. Glass's father, the inventor Makriakoff has disappeared, but there's one way she might be able to find him. The Wishlord Trials are about to start, and if Glass wins, she'll get a rendez-vous with the Wishlord. As his name implies, he grants wishes, but only one to the winner of the Trials. Glass is determined to get in and battle her way to the end, even if the judges and other contestants don't think a delicate girl made of glass and metal can fight against human muscle, weapons, and cruelty.
The Angels of Phnom Penh
Binh Ca, whose name used to be different, is a tattoo artist's assistant and nothing more since the Java-Celebes Military Junta destroyed the Neo-Angkor People's Alliance, but when her old commander, a woman by the name of Kattina comes calling, her life once again changes. Kattina wants her to take up her old armour, to infiltrate a factory that used to produce the singlemost powerful weapon of her people: The Angels of Phnom Penh, and find something possibly even stronger. The Angels of Death. To do that, Binh Ca has to use her wits, her ally Hy Kim, and every memory of the war she can summon. Only if she can find the Angels, she might have a chance at kicking the JaCelebes out of her country and returning safety to the streets.
The Lifesmith's Daughter
Kat (name might still change) never knew she had a different father until the General came to find her. He needs her, but his urgency has nothing to do with love. He needs her to confront her demonic mother, to trick a goddess into giving him her power, and only then, he will release the Lifesmith who has raised her. The goddess however offers a different deal: if Kat frees her, Kat will have her power, to do with as she pleases. The problem is that Kat doesn't have any magic- she'd never been taught how to use it. The only things she can call her own are the swords and shields, the animals, the tiny war-machine she whittles from wood like the Lifesmith showed her.
The Nightmare Conquest
Xia Shan thought she left the life of a Command tactician behind when the war against the Kines ended, but now, she's starting to dream about them again, and the things they did to her people when she was young. After the war, she sequestered herself on a tiny farming planet with a boy she saved from the destroyed planet Kalkattan, but when the boy starts to show signs of an alien illness and her old General calls, she has to choose: fight for Command once again and risk the peace she's gained, or flee the people who nearly destroyed her in their battle against the alien foe, and try to save Horus's life.
The books have been professionally edited and I've so far got covers for Glass. I'm working on the rest. (It's more difficult than I thought to get exactly the cover you want!) I'll update if there's any development or the date has set for these babies to go live!
Side note: I'm still trying to find a way to get stories to you for free. That's also more difficult than I thought. But let's see what happens!
See you then!
