Happy New Year, everyone!

Things are off to a brisk start here. After taking a year off, the Worcester Writers Collaborative resumed its annual tradition of getting together for New Year’s Day dinner and drinks and shop talk, I finished getting the e-book versions of all my novels up on both Barnes & Noble and Kobo, I finished editing and formatting Action Figures – Issue Seven: The Black End War, and I have secured my new tablemate for Arisia. More on them next week.

In other news, I am taking part in a month-long cross-promotion with several other superhero fiction authors, and until January 31 you can grab Action Figures – Issue One: Secret Origins along with 32 other titles for free!

WRITING PROJECTS

Well Behaved Women: With the day job on hiatus for a while, I was able to plug away and finally get some good work done. I’m creeping up on the 30,000 work mark and hope to keep up the momentum despite a busy January.

The Adventures of Strongarm & Lightfoot – book four: First draft in progress.

Action Figures – Issue Seven: The Black End War: Edited and formatted, waiting on cover art.

Action Figures – Issue Eight: Crawling from the Wreckage: Third draft written.

Action Figures – Issue Nine: Rough plotting in progress.

Action Figures – Issue One: Secret Origins (audiobook): Review completed, final editing in progress.

APPEARANCES and EVENTS

• UPDATED! Friday, January 12 through Monday, January 15, 2018: Arisia 2018 at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel. I’ll be back selling books and speaking on three panels: We Got Movie Sign! Mystery Science Theater 3000 (in Burroughs, Saturday, 10:00 PM); Stage Presentation: A Minute or Less to Impress (in Faneuil, Sunday, 11:30 AM); and Fight Science for Writers — Hands-On Demos (in Otis, Sunday, 4 PM).
• Friday, February 16 through Sunday, February 18: Boskone at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel (tentative).

MISC.

It’s the final countdown for the New England Speculative Writers group’s open call for its first anthology. If you’re a New England-based writer, you’re eligible to submit a story. The deadline for submission is January 31, so get cracking! Go here to get the full details.

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