So many projects. So little time.
I've let a lot of deadlines slip, but it's not because I'm lazy, believe me. I've just taken on more than I anticipated. I'm currently working Monday-Friday, 8am-6pm on serious projects, breaking for dinner, and then doing a couple extra hours each night on my side projects like The B Team. So yeah, once you cut out the lunch breaks, I'm writing for around 60 hours a week. Serious business, guys.
This is where my hours are going:
Olesia Anderson #5, 'Burning Bridges', is about 50% done. I said I'd have it out in February. That ain't gonna happen. I'll have a draft done in Feb, sure, but then it has to be rewritten, proofed, go through test readers... so yeah, I've missed my deadline. I'm sorry.
Century of Sand book 2 is completely edited on paper, and I'm now retyping it all. I've completed around 90 of 215 pages, after which comes reproofing, test readers, etc etc. It may be quite a while.
The print version of Century of Sand 1 is almost done! I'm doing a sixth round of proofing now, which should be complete by the end of next week. After that, it'll be ready for purchase via Createspace!
I have two more novels in the making: Project Ocho, and Killing in America. Project Ocho is a cyberpunk novel set in Brazil, and is really tough to write. The plotting is intricate and I can't really get a handle on the larger arcs yet. Killing in America is coming along nicely though. It's a man-out-of-time serial killer mystery, as a murderer takes a road trip across the USA and taunts the authorities by sending them fragments of his thesis - a thesis on the psychology of the serial killers he meets along the way.
Both those novels are being built slowly. They won't be major projects until CoS2 and 3 are in the bag. So, expect them around 2016.
I have three short stories on the boil as well. Corrosion is a Cthulhu-esque horror story set in 1980s Melbourne, Wearied is a cyberpunk noir set in 2050s Melbourne, and then I have a third horror series that doesn't have a name yet, but which borrows a lot from Spiral, Twin Peaks and Green Wake. All are progressing at about 500 words a week. No due dates yet.
Oh yeah, and McKean and Corbel book 1. That's almost done. Just need to whip myself through the last couple thousand words.
Oh yeah, and a tech book I'm working on with a friend in Malaysia. It should be awesome.
Oh yeah, and my as-yet-unannounced children's book series that I'm creating with my brother. It's about vegetables, and it's great.
And then, and THEN, I'll get on to chapter 4 of XCOM: The B Team.