New Month, Some Changes
Hey. I’ve been super neglecting the blog lately, sorry. I will do a monthly round-up post this weekend plus talk a bit about Worldcon. I’ve also been trying to write a post about Clarion, but I’m honestly not sure I’ll be able to do it. There was so much that happened and so much I’m still processing that I don’t know how to sum it up in 500-800 words. I’ll have to think on it and maybe I’ll just put it up as a blog post at the same time I get my Clarion project book out and use the same thing as a sort of forward in the book. We’ll see.
Meanwhile, I have a book to write in September. This means I’m probably not going to feel much like updating the blog with posts since my brain is hopefully going to be full of novel and not blog posts. However, I think I’m going to serialize my cyberpunk/dystopia SF/pseudo-thriller novel Casimir Hypogean here with weekly posts. It’s just a rough draft and I’m not entirely sure I’m not going to tear this novel apart and redraft it from scratch (I’ve already done that twice), but we’ll see. If I get good reader response, maybe I will just write the sequels instead. So starting next week I’ll post a chapter or at least a part of a chapter a week.
Here’s the cover, by the way, and the rough description of the book:
A genetically engineered bodyguard addicted to the drugs that prolong her life. An ex-cop struggling to provide for his children. An obsessive-compulsive cybernetically enhanced computer genius. This band of misfits scrapes by below the radar of their iron-fisted government in an enclosed city where all is not as shiny or under control as it appears.
Then they uncover a plan with deadly side-effects aimed at taking control of a top government position. As hundreds start dropping dead in the streets from an engineered virus, the criminals find themselves in a race to decode the information they’ve stumbled upon and unravel a terrifying plot. Faced with betrayal and pursuit on all sides, the three quickly realize that they must save the spiral city and very government that has outlawed them if they are to have any chance of saving themselves.