I have decided to attempt to return to my science-fiction work, while maintaining my focus on poetry. For the past five years, I have concentrated almost exclusively on poetry. While I have enjoyed this journey and have no plan to slow down writing and publishing poetry, I have found the strong desire to work and publish in fiction to be almost equally as strong.

So here’s a list of already written books that I am actively re-editing and hope to release in the coming year and a half. A bit ambitious, perhaps, but we have to start somewhere, don’t we? Timing will depend on both how the editing goes and securing the right art work (the two most time-consuming parts of the process). I’m hoping by putting this out there, I’ll feel obligated to persist with such an aggressive schedule.

1. Steampunk novel set in the American Old West (with a fun science-fiction twist).
2. Steampunk fantasy novel set in its own world (less steampunk than the previous novel but heavy on the magic).
3. Book of science-fiction short stories.
4. Science-fiction chapter book (for grade-school kids).
5. Chapter book (for grade-school kids). This one is kind of a sports theme but not in the traditional sense.

That’s a lot right? I don’t know about you, but I’m excited! This work represents almost a decade of work.

By getting these books out there into the world, I will then free my fiction-focused time up to focus on my already started (and stopped) projects that include a science-fiction space novel, as well as the third Spit Mechs chapter book.

I have a few poetry book manuscripts that I have been shopping around with publishers (one ever-changing book and two chapbooks). So I’m hoping these will land soon. Fingers crossed, everyone!

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