The Stuff I'm Working On Now

I tried to come up with a better title for this blog entry.  Well, tried a little.  But sometimes "on the nose" is the way to go.
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Since becoming a full-time writer -- that is to say, since writing became my full-time job -- I've been working on ways to fill my time.  I celebrated the end of my corporate career by finishing a new novel, tentatively called "Dragons."  It's a YA science fiction story about a teenage boy with a unique and extremely dangerous power who finds himself kidnapped by an interplanetary corporation with designs to use his "skill set" to advance their own agenda, for good or ill.  It's an adventure story about growing up hard and fast in an unforgiving adult world.  As we speak, my amazing agent is reviewing it.  Already, I know there will be changes, so let's call that one a "work in progress."

My latest finished novel is TORQ.  This one is expected out this summer through Swallows End Publishing.  It's also YA science fiction, but wholly different.  It tells the story of Rand Roberts, a teenager who lives in the Machine, a massive, fully self-contained ... well ... machine, two miles high and a mile square.  The hundreds of thousands of people who have made their home inside it have done so for millennia -- so long that they no longer believe there even is a world outside.  This is a story of Haves versus Have-Nots, and of a hero named Torq who's destiny will forever shift the balance.  I guess it's basically a superhero novel set in a wholly unique world.  Needless to say, I'm very excited about this one!

My current project is a huge departure for me.  But you can read all about that on the Current Project page.  But it bears saying that, in this case, the book is only part of the story.  Soon, my wife and I will be releasing a podcast that we've been working on.  It's called "Legacy" and, as far as we know, it's the first podcast that deals with the writing of a novel while the novel is being written.  Consider it kind of an author's how-to, presented through the filter of the most challenging and personal project of my career.  We're over the moon about this one!

I guess that's it, at least for now.  But new projects keep popping up all the time.  As they do, I'll pass the info along.

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