Retrieval Artist Update #4
Click, click, click, click. The sounds you hear are the pieces falling into place.
One week after I gave Dean (who is my first reader) Search & Recovery, I gave him The Peyti Crisis, the next book in the Anniversary Day Saga. If he likes it, it’ll go to the content editor.
I didn’t write a 100,000-word novel in a week. I did, however, write a lot of pages, because I had to completely revisit one character’s motivations & interactions. I had initially written much of The Peyti Crisis after Murder of Clones, then got to the next book (working on it today) and realized I had missed some really important stuff. So, then I went back, wrote Search & Recovery, changed some things in Murder of Clones, and revised The Peyti Crisis.
Yes, writing out of order is fun. Yes, you’re reading sarcasm.
For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, check out the previous three updates. You can see inside my process (probably more than you want to), and you’ll learn why this has become such an endeavor.
What the completion of The Peyti Crisis means is that the books for January, February, and March are now done (unless Dean hates The Peyti Crisis [or the content editor does]), and I’m moving onto the next book, which is half done already. I suspect some of what I wrote can’t be salvaged, but much of that book is fine just the way it is.
Of course, in the middle of all this assembly, I stop and write parts of the book after the next book because it all fits.
Yes, writing out of order is fun. Yes, you’re still reading sarcasm.
But I can see the end now, and I’m really pleased with it.
And here’s something even more fun. WMG’s marvelous Allyson Longuiera designed the cover for A Murder of Clones. Note the Anniversary Day Saga “bug” (that little button), which all of the books in the saga will have for ease of reading. She’s going back and adding that to Anniversary Day and Blowback as well. We’ll reissue those books with a letter from me in the front in October and November. That way, the entire saga will match.
More coming! Stay tuned!
Kris
As 2014 hits the halfway mark, my anticipation grows stronger for more Retrieval Artist. I enjoyed all but one book in audio format and certainly hope you’re planning on a quick release on audio with Jay Snyder as the reader again. The books are fantastic, and I’ll read them to myself if I need to, but I find it so much easier to lose myself in this amazing world you have created when I can just enjoy. I must have listened to each one 4 times, even though I rarely relisten to novels. I just enjoy being transported (Star Trek pun intended) to this wonderous future. It was fascinating reading about how attentive you are to every detail, but the individual novels and entire arcs are seamless and fluid in execution. The hard work pays off!
Thanks so much, Tracey. That’s good to hear as I send off the March book to the content editor today. :-) All of the Audible books will be released at the same time as the paper/ebooks, so you’ll get them when everyone else does. The one thing you Audible listeners have missed are the novellas. Audible is producing those right now. You’ll have The Possession of Paavo Deshin and The Recovery Man’s Bargain before the end of the year.
I greatly appreciate your comment here, and am heading back to work now. :-)