The State of the Jacey

[jacey]

I'm behind on my booklogs, not because I haven't been reading, but because I've been snatching odd chapters between bouts of writing and so not reading in quite such a concentrated fashion as I usually do. I'm about five books behind on writing up my book bloggage - for which I am about to make up. As usual in a year with a lot of writing, it's my reading that suffers. I do find it difficult to read fiction when I'm writing a first draft of something. I'm always wary in case ideas bleed over without me realising. In a normal year I might read (and blog) 50 or 60 books, but this year I'll be lucky to manage 35 or 40.

Cinema, too. Frankly for the last few weeks there's been nothing on we've wanted to see.  I was tempted by the new Bond movie, Spectre, but my cinebuddy, H, went to see it with her best beloved. (Like my best beloved, he doen't much care for cinema trips, usually.) H would have been happy to see it again but she said a) it wasn't as good as the last one and b) it was exceedingly LOUD in places. Besides, I've been busy...

I decided to pace myself alongside NaNoWriMo to get a whole heap of extra wordage on the work in progress. I'm currently working on the frst draf of Silverwolf, which is the sequel to Winterwood, my magic pirate book, which comes out in February. (And for which I've just had the cover.) My deadline for delivery of Silverwolf is February, but I want to get the first draft done by Christmas if I can, so that I have time to let it settle, let a few beta-readers have their wicked way with it, and then do any redrafting necessary to lick it into shape. There will, of course, be editorial comments from Sheila at DAW, and a further edit (at least one) beyond that. Publication date hasn't been confirmed yet, but depending on my delivery of the first draft it will either be late 2016 or early 2017.

After that I have Nimbus, the third Psi-Tech novel to write. Before I knew DAW's publication order for the next two novels, I'd done the first 10k words on that, so I have some ideas sloshing round in this bucket I sometimes call a brain.

So NaNoWriMo is halfway over and so far I've written almost 22,000 words, taking a couple of days off for a) my daughter and grandson's all-too-rare visit, and b) Novacon in Nottingham. I need to do at least 1,900 words a day now to make up the 50,000 words for November. Right... onwards and upwards...

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

LOVE that cover!!!

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm thrilled with it. It's by Larry Rostant.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Waves!

Nice to see you about again! :o)

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I'm still here, just on an intensive writing binge.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

It happens! :o)

[watervole.livejournal.com]

That is one gorgeous cover!

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Thanks.
:-)

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I think I've admired it before, but in case I didn't, that's a wonderful cover! We did enjoy the bond, which was a perfectly decent Bond and ticked all the boxes, but not special enough to worry about missing. It just happened to coincide with our trip to the North Wales coast so we popped into the cinema at Llandudno Junction on the way home.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the cover comment, and also for confirming that I've not missed much by skipping Bond this time around. I'm sure it will be on TV at some point.