Well…it looked really good flying overhead…

I missed the deadline, but on the upside I’m under 10,000 (8,167 words to be exact – a chapter and a half) words remaining. Now, if it’s going to be finished under ten thousand words is another question. One I can’t really answer right now. I know what the ending is going to be, but I don’t know how to get there. Y’know – typical author things.

I am going to stick with the schedule I have in my head and start outlining The Marvelous and Malefic Doomsday Medicine Show during my lunch period. In the morning and evening I am going to put down my seven hundred words to keep going. I will be somewhat optimistic and say that this first draft will be finished by the end of the month.

No, really.

This year is going to be the year of Epic Fantasy. I am only work on two books: the aforementioned Medicine Show and Unbound – my really epic ‘Frankenstein Meets Lord of the Rings while cosplaying a Larry McMurtry novel’ series. These two books are definitely going to sent out to publishers. These are too good to risk self-publishing. Wish me luck!

I am really excited about starting these two books. Well, starting is not the right word. “Concluding” would be more accurate. I’ve have Unbound in my head since the middle to late nineties and Medicine Show is at least five years old. Yes, I take my time in putting books together, but the ones I do get together are really good.

Speaking of putting books together: Catastrophic Christmas Party is out on Kindle right now and will be put into paperback by the end of next week. I just need to re-format the manuscript for paperback printing. There’s a lot to get straight and it’s going to take a full day. I’ve done it before and let me tell you – it’s a pain in the butt, but I can at least tell someone “you don’t read e-books? That’s okay – it’s in paperback.”

So – this year is going to be super-productive, I’m sure. I got books finished, and I even got a book out there for sale. I can carry this momentum over to this year and get these two big books finished. Wish me luck.