Surprise!

Things moved along last month. After attending the Smarter Artists Summit in February, I found the ending I needed for Suicide Run. I lucked into a slot with my editor and she turned it around in record time. I got it back from her a few days ago and managed to get it published Saturday night.

In other news, I participated in a write-a-thon with my local Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers group at the end of March. I’d already started Home Run and added 35,000 words over the four days of the event. It’s about half done now and I’ve reserved an editorial slot for it. Fingers crossed for a speedy conclusion.

More news, I’ve heard from Artistic Whispers about the Tanyth Fairport series. They’re in post-production for Ravenwood now. I’ll get it as soon as they’re done — which should be a matter of weeks rather than months. I’m really looking forward to hearing this and I hope you are too.

What’s next?

I still owe everybody By Darkness Forged. It’s the last book in the Seeker’s Tales and the last book I have contracted to Podium.

So recap:

Working on: Home Run – Book 3 (and last) Smugglers’ Tale
Next up: By Darkness Forged – Book 3 (and last) Seekers’ Tale

In Production
Paperback for South Coast
Audio for Ravenwood

After that?

I’ll ignore new books until I get caught up on paperbacks. I hate doing it. My end of year numbers reinforced just how few paperbacks I actually sell, but having them hanging over my head is untenable.

Artistic Whispers will continue to work through the Tanyth Fairport adventures.

My plan most likely path forward is to finish Cape Grace, then go back to the land of Korlay to catch up with Tanyth and her friends, and then begin to look at what new adventures Ishmael and Pip might be going on sometime in 2018.

If you’re having trouble reaching nathanlowell.ORG it’s because that domain was actually discontinued last January as part of my webside fumigation process.

That’s apparently started to cause problems with my TOMMW podcast listeners whose podcatchers stopped finding the podcast feed.

Easy fix: Change the .org address to .com.

The recent change was caused by the SSL certificates (that https thing) not validating correctly.

I’m working with my malware service to resolve a couple of remaining issues.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

I missed the March 1 post because I attended the Smarter Artists Summit in Austin and hadn’t recovered. Since then I’ve been hammering away on Suicide Run. I just remembered to post this morning.

Status:

1. Suicide Run – finished first draft. I’m about a third of the way through a second draft.

2. Next Book: Home Run. I need to finish this up so I can free my brain up for By Darkness Forged.

3. I’m using some new techniques I picked up from the summit. We’ll see how they go.

4. Audio for Darkness will have to wait until I write it. I have no idea how soon that’ll get accomplished. If the new techniques work? Probably relatively soon – like before the end of the year.

Stay tuned