Hey, everybody. Surely you’ve heard, by now, that Disintegration will be published. Some of you have asked me directly: when?
That’s the question.
In making this update, I’m taking a break from writing but, once I send it, I’ll go right back to it, with Mastodon’s "The Hunter" as my musical motivation. There is still work to do. The story is complete but, as I’ve mentioned, I don’t want to deliver anything less than the best possible version of the manuscript. That doesn’t mean I’m going to procrastinate interminably; I understand that, every time I read the book, I could find something to change. I’m trying to avoid that trap and focus only on changing things that are errors in continuity, that bog down the narrative, that detract from the tale I mean to tell.
In other news, I finished reading
Trekonomics last night. If you haven’t ordered a copy of it, do it now. Manu Saadia did a great job, and the book provides examples of how we’re not far from the utopia depicted in
Star Trek. Disintegration may be dystopic, but I’m all for a future that never looks like the one I’m depicting. Read
Trekonomics and start thinking seriously about how we can make a bright future for all of humanity our reality.
Although I’ve become a poor blogger with no sense of schedule over the last year or two, I still have a blog which counts several hundred page-views even when I don’t post, every month. Much more when I do. Starting this coming monday (very much in honor of Draftshares which has so recently ended) I would like to invite Inkshares authors the chance to display themselves and their projects on my blog. Basically it would be an author profile and an introduction to their stories, with one or two images of their choosing.
Obviously, I don’t promise any specific results. It’s only a chance to spread the word of your project on another tiny piece of this infinite little internet of ours. If you are interested in taking part, message me here or post on this forum thread. I can’t say that everyone will be able to do this, since I’ll only be posting one profile per week, but I’ll do my best to spread the love!
If there is enough interest, I might even turn it into two posts a week; one for drafts, and one for projects already in the pre-order phase.
Please let me know if you have any thoughts or ideas about this!
If you want to check out the blog first: It’s Right Here