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May 12th, 2007

Ah, Editing...

Now the actual work begins, and to make things more fun, I've started another novel
while I'm editing Omega! More about that book sometime down the road. And just to
make things more interesting, I'm moving to a new apartment in the next couple of
weeks. I always try to write a novel in every place where I live, and Omega snuck in just
under the wire on this one.

I've been getting email from people saying: What's taking so long over at the house of
Powys? Well, we're waiting for Born for Adversity to be finished. And we're also finishing
up a story for Shepherd Moon that's being written by attendees of a Space:1999
convention in Portland back in 2003 (I think many of them were surprised to hear from
us after all this time, but that's the breaks). Once the story is finished, Shepherd Moon
will be going up for pre-order on the Powys site, hopefully in July or August. Then, Born
for Adversity has to come out, then Omega can come out hot on its heels. So the
production cycle at Powys is beginning to pick up some steam -- there's also a certain
omnibus edition of a certain first season of a certain show that's falling into place on the
side -- don't know how likely that is for this year, but it's coming -- signature page and
everything. I think I've also been talked into letting my "End of Eternity" novelization from
"Eternity Unbound" slip into the omnibus (but I won't be signing the signature page), with
the E.C. Tubb original included as an extra bonus.

I'm making notes on the hard copy of Omega I'm editing with that indicate sections to be
further developed, so that book's gonna get longer as time progresses. When Omega
comes out, I plan on keeping this blog going just a little bit longer (I'm guessing some
people might have some questions or whatever). Then, I've got some other writing
projects to work on for awhile, including a non-fiction book. I'll be back at Powys in a
year or two or three to do a Prisoner book, the sixth of six, or at least, that's the plan.
That book's called Endgame, and it's not going to be like any other Prisoner book in the
series. Put it this way -- there's a certain question a certain prisoner is always asked,
and we're never given the answer. That's going to change (but will all be as it appears?).

The Mary's Monster rewrite will also stumble out someday, chased by torches. But I
think my next novel's going to be a thriller, Cold War era, that ties into a certain pop
culture icon from the 1970s to some degree, but it won't be a licensed novel. Pure
standalone.

So, nothing horribly exciting to report right now, just figured I'd let everybody know things
are happening behind the scenes as we attempt to pry more money from your wallets.

Okay, here's a little gift for my faithful readers:

       The shape moved through the great nothingness propelled by occasional bursts of
tiny microjets, the energy expended almost infinitesimally small. Its five pointed arms
sported an elaborate array of external sensing devices, scanning in all directions,
conveying the same message repeatedly, of nothing to be found, save the occasional
hydrogen atom greedily consumed as fuel.
       Over time, the sensor array grew interested in a mild upsurge in radiation, quickly
scanning the area and determining that a narrow cone of space was particularly
radioactive. The microjets pulsed, changing the shape’s course as it moved toward the
distant source of matter in decay. Its sensors could not yet detect the source, but the
radiation stream was constant, and that was enough to warrant proceeding.
       As the radiation grew stronger, the shape’s speed increased.

And so begins a little book called...Omega.

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