The Final Calling: Progress Report Sixteen

Chapter Sixteen is now online; read! Enjoy! Send money!

I’ve written midway through Chapter Twenty-One.

The serial is paid for through Chapter Twenty-One.

Chapter Seventeen will be posted on Wednesday, October 6.

Not much other news on this one; I was on vacation for most of the last two weeks, and the only work I did while traveling was getting the files ready for the Wildside Press reprints (as a two-in-one flipbook) of The Cyborg and the Sorcerers and The Wizard and the War Machine. No writing. Oh, a little plotting of future projects, but no writing.

But I’m home again, and should be caught up in a day or two, then it’s back to work.

The Final Calling: Progress Report Fifteen

Chapter Fourteen and Chapter Fifteen have been posted.

I’m still writing Chapter Twenty-One, as I didn’t get anything done on it while traveling. (I did finish preparing the files to reprint The Cyborg and the Sorcerers and The Wizard and the War Machine.)

Everything’s paid for through Chapter Twenty-One; I need to get busy and finish writing it.

Chapter Sixteen should be posted on schedule on Wednesday the 29th.

The Final Calling: Progress Report Fourteen

Chapter Thirteen is now online.

I’m midway through writing Chapter Twenty-One; I should be farther, but I’ve been distracted by other projects, such as the chapbook to accompany Realms of Light, and getting the cleaned-up files of The Cyborg and the Sorcerers and The Wizard and the War Machine ready for the upcoming Wildside Press reprint volume.

The serial is paid for up through Chapter Nineteen; Chapter Twenty is almost paid for.

Chapter Fourteen will be posted next week, though perhaps not at exactly the usual time; I’ll be traveling, and am not certain of my schedule. However, I won’t have my own computer, and I’m not planning to take all my mailing lists and passwords and so on, so I won’t be making all the usual announcements; you’ll just have to check for yourselves.

Chapter Fifteen will be delayed; I don’t know how much. I won’t have net access on the 22nd. Everything should be squared away and up to date again by September 29th, when Chapter Sixteen will be posted.

The Final Calling: Progress Report Thirteen

Chapter Twelve is now online.

I’m midway through writing Chapter Twenty.

The serial’s paid for through Chapter Nineteen.

Chapter Thirteen will be posted Wednesday, September 8.

Hey, I’m finally farther along in writing than I’ve been paid for!

Generally speaking, I think it’s going reasonably well. I’m into a section where my working outline is a bit skimpy, but I think I can manage.

The Final Calling: Progress Report Ten

Chapter Nine is online.

I’m paid through Chapter Sixteen, and a significant portion of Chapter Seventeen — I haven’t run the numbers today. I was away for a four-day weekend, and then we had guests, so I haven’t had time to do much.

I haven’t had time to write any more, either — I’m still just starting Chapter Sixteen.

This is going to be a busy week, so I may not get much writing done for the next few days either, but next week there shouldn’t be any distractions. Chapter Ten will be posted on Wednesday, August 18th.

Hope you like the story so far.

The Final Calling: Progress Report Nine

Chapter Eight is now on the web.

I’m paid up through Chapter Sixteen.

I’ve written to the beginning of Chapter Sixteen.

I’ll be away this weekend, at NASFiC in Raleigh, so I won’t be replying to comments or acknowledging donations, but I should be back online by Monday afternoon and will catch up in time to get Chapter Nine posted on Wednesday, August 11.

I think that’s it. Am I forgetting anything?

Realms of Light: Progress Report Thirty-Three

I told you it wasn’t dead — Chapter Fifteen of Realms of Light is finally online!

I maybe had to cheat a little — I’m actually still a couple of dollars short, but I decided it was close enough. Or if you count the advance from FoxAcre Press (which I don’t), then this chapter was paid for a couple of weeks ago.

The contracts with FoxAcre are signed, the token advance has been paid, cover art has been approved and the rights obtained. The editor has read the novel, and says there are a very few small changes wanted; I’m waiting for the file telling me what those are. None of them are potential deal-breakers, I’m assured, so everything’s on track. Due to unrelated family stuff taking up most of the publisher’s time right now, we don’t yet have a publication date, but it shouldn’t be too much longer.

Regarding the planned bonus chapbook, I lost the working file of Setting the Stage in a computer crash a few weeks ago, and will need to rewrite it from scratch; I do still have all the original materials, so it shouldn’t be difficult, but I haven’t yet found time to tackle it.

And I think that’s about everything; back to The Final Calling.