Finished with two editing clients this week, leaving me pretty open for my novel, and I DID get some work done on it. I’m at about the 80% mark and hope to have the first draft done by the end of the month. I’m currently doing panels online as Winnipeg’s Keycon Editor Guest of Honor. Keeping busy!
Presenting this week for the Canadian Authors’ Association
Got a few chapters done on the WIP, so that’s going well. Editing clients and other writing-adjacent work is still eating up some of my time, but presenting to people is fun and keeps me active in the community. This week I’ll be presenting on “Backstory Secrets” on behalf of the Canadian Authors’ Association!
Literary Guest of Honor at Keycon!
Finished the edits for a client, freeing me up to get back to the novel, hopefully tomorrow. I still have to plan a presentation for Tuesday, so that will come first. Also, the Life Beyond Us Kickstarter funded!!! YAY! So now I will be one of 3 editors working on the antho. I’m super-excited about that.
Oh, and I’m going to be Literary Guest of Honor at Keycon, Manitoba’s con in 2 weeks–virtually, of course. So, that’s exciting, too.
Finally, I’m doing a webinar for the Canadian Authors’ Association on Backstory. So…yeah, I keep busy.
Asked to co-edit Life Beyond Us
I guess I didn’t mention this before (where’s my brain?), but I was asked to co-edit Life Beyond Us, an antho by the European Astrobiological Institute with a ton of amazing authors (Stephen Baxter, Greg Benford, Tobias Buckell, Eric Choi, Julie E. Czerneda, Mary Robinette Kowal, Geoffrey Landis, and more), and editors Julie Novakova and Lucas Law.
So–over the moon on that. BUT (of course) the kickstarter needs to fund (it’s at 80% with 9 days to go, so, fingers crossed). Any help letting people know would be much appreciated. Some of the rewards are totally cool (virtual tour of the Very Large Telescope in Chile, and so forth), and it’s an education outreach program for science (a science essay explaining the underpinnings of each story is part of it). I’m really hoping it goes!
YES! Short story sale!
Clearly, the short story I submitted to Shapers of Worlds Volume II was accepted–because I got paid! Yay!
Also, I got some good news I can’t share yet. Watch for an upcoming post!