Word in Edgewise

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

I will be at Fencon this weekend

I will be at Fencon this weekend, as well as the signing at Half-Price books tomorrow (Thursday - Sept 15th)

Saturday I'll be there the longest, though I do have to pop out at noon to go home and let the dogs out for a while. If you're there, look me up.

Thursday, September 8, 2022

A new Shadow Book is out and the Audiobook for Shadow is on sale

First off, I just found out the Audiobook for Shadow, is on sale on Audible, until tomorrow.

No, Audible NEVER tells anyone when they're going to run a sale - which is why I'm only posting about it now. Part of why I hate doing business with them.

Next up, I said nothing would be coming out until the end of this month, however I did finish a collection of shorts about Shadow from before he became Shadow. The title of this small collection (well not that small) is: Into The Dark.

Into The Dark by Jan Stryvant

Inside are several stories from his College Years (Yes, I merged those stories into this book in case you've already read those) plus 5 more from when he went to work for Boston Implantables, and 3 more 'Bonus' shorts - two of which take place after the events of 'Shadow' and one of which was cut from the original book.

Monday, July 25, 2022

A Brief Intermission

Just letting you know that it probably won't be until September until I publish another book. There are a couple of reasons for this, of course, none of which fall under the category of 'Bad'.

The first is that I'd been planning to take about a month off after LiberyCon. Unfortunately, that got postponed a week, as I was behind schedule on getting 'No Place Like Home' out. I'd hoped to get away for a week or two, as in travel, but things are still messed up in a lot of the rest of the country and the last thing I wanted to have happen was to be forced into some pointless quarantine. Especially as the governor in one of those places is a couple asshat (and I'm not talking about California this time either).

Of course I had a LOT of things at home that needed attention and I spent a couple of weeks wrenching on my motorcycles which have been poorly neglected for the last year. Then there were a lot of non-writing writing work that I wanted to get done, and a fair deal of it did get done. But there's still a lot more to do and thankfully I now have help with that.

There's also some stuff I had to do for Baen Books, in regards to the book I have coming out with them come December.

Now, going forward, I want to get the sequel to that book done. Once that's done, it goes to Baen, so that will also slow down anything new coming out. I have a number of things in my head right now as well that I want to get down in some sort of outline form, because I've got a lot of things I want to write now. Some of it is POI, some of it is Valens, and some of it is completely new stuff. I'm hoping that will make everyone happy, including the WTM folks who can't figure out what to write unless they're ripping off me or my friends.

I will be at FenCon in Dallas this September, though I don't know how long I'll be there on any individual day as I have Very Large Dogs and I can't just leave them in the house for long periods of time. But I will try to make the most of it.

So yes, unfortunately I may not have anything new out until September or October, but I am back to work. I really did need a break where I wasn't thinking about things writing and deadlines or the rest of that. It's been about five years since I've been able to do that. I did tell my Patrons on Patreon and SubscribeStar about it, but I hadn't mentioned elsewhere really, so I figured I'd put this out here.

Hope you're all doing well!