Drive-by update
Skywatch: Two synopsis drafts, one 1-page and the other 2-3, working on just 2. List of possible agents to query acquired; currently going through their websites and writing down what they want from a query (just the query, query+synopsis, query+synopsis+1st five pages, etc). Frustraing, difficult, time-consuming.
Horizons (that YA sci-fi I was talking about): Rough draft started--three times, so far--and we'll see if it picks up momentum or if I wandered off the drawing board too early.
Moxie: A little more worldbuilding, some poking at what I want from book two (yes, I know, I'm not even ready to start book one yet, but--I'm universe-building, here. A wide scope is necessary. We're not going to talk about the plotting I've done for book five. Or eight).
The Girl She Truly Was: no news yet. I will annouce its publication date as soon as I know it!
Other: some random mish-mash of stuff--a couple of short story drats that likely won't go anywhere, and research for a world idea I'm not sure is going to pan out yet.
I did plow through the book Parasite Rex (nonfiction) with great enthusiasm, and checked a few more parasite books out of the library, so we'll see if my intellectural curiosity can beat down my gag reflex long enough to learn anything interesting.
Besides my favorite parasite, which has been toxoplasma gondii for years. You can thank Scott Westerfeld's Peeps for that. (And also for the book rec on Parasite Rex, whichi I second.)
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Horizons (that YA sci-fi I was talking about): Rough draft started--three times, so far--and we'll see if it picks up momentum or if I wandered off the drawing board too early.
Moxie: A little more worldbuilding, some poking at what I want from book two (yes, I know, I'm not even ready to start book one yet, but--I'm universe-building, here. A wide scope is necessary. We're not going to talk about the plotting I've done for book five. Or eight).
The Girl She Truly Was: no news yet. I will annouce its publication date as soon as I know it!
Other: some random mish-mash of stuff--a couple of short story drats that likely won't go anywhere, and research for a world idea I'm not sure is going to pan out yet.
I did plow through the book Parasite Rex (nonfiction) with great enthusiasm, and checked a few more parasite books out of the library, so we'll see if my intellectural curiosity can beat down my gag reflex long enough to learn anything interesting.
Besides my favorite parasite, which has been toxoplasma gondii for years. You can thank Scott Westerfeld's Peeps for that. (And also for the book rec on Parasite Rex, whichi I second.)
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