New Year, New... Books? Yeah, let's go with that, I got some very fine books for Christmas.
2015 was the year I finally got a story published. 2016 needs to top that, clearly. And it's the time of year for making rash declarations, so I have Rashly Declared that I'll do everything I can to have something suitable for querying agents by the end of the year.
There are, essentially, two possible contenders for this. The first, Shadows in the Nursery, is the gothic horror I wrote for NaNo 2014. It's already had two further drafts in the intervening time, but there's more work to be done. I'm currently gathering responses from beta readers for that, though, which leaves me open to do some work on the other option.
Iron and Gold is the fantasy novel I wrote during the most recent NaNo. It's a number of things already; a complete rework of the story I wrote for NaNo 2010; the first novel of mine to run to over 100,000 words; and hopefully the start of a trilogy. I intend to write book 2, Truth and Consequences, this coming November and that means I need to get the finer points of book 1 firmly nailed down before that. I'm quite pleased with the first draft as it stands, but I have a list as long as my arm of things that need doing to improve it. Everything from simple things like making sure character descriptions remain consistent throughout to bigger things like an entire subplot I want to add in. No beta readers, as yet, because I have too many changes of my own to deal with. They'll get the next draft, if they're lucky.
So, two big projects ongoing. With luck I can alternate between the two, working on a draft of one while the other is percolating. Plenty to keep me busy, and maybe I'll get around to submitting a few more short stories along the way.
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