Farewell to 2019

For anyone out there interested in what I’ve been up to, writing-wise, I wish I had more publishing news! But that’s the problem with working on novels. They take a long time in development, and a long time to find a publisher.

For a lot of 2019, I continued to send out Bark at the Moon, my 1980s metal/werewolf novel. I also sought feedback on it from beta readers for some aspects I hadn’t given deep enough consideration to, and made revisions to it.

Most of the revising work I was doing, though, was on my other novel-in-progress, A Taste of Home. I often describe it as a Douglas Adams-esque take on Icelandic folklore transplanted to Canada, and if that’s not niche enough for you, it also explores the reasons Icelanders cannot agree on the correct recipe for vínarterta and why family recipes (or at least, one) are guarded jealously.  I was also getting feedback on the MS and some of the history it grapples with from fellow writers and experts, and incorporating their feedback into a massive revision of the entire manuscript.

What else? I also started working on a novel about a haunted theatre, which I will probably blog more about once I can devote more time to both the novel and blogging. I decided to write the first draft of the novel by hand, to see if it had any effect on  the creative process.

One other thing I never did blog about was the publication of Parallel Prairies by Great Plains Publications, an anthology of the weird and bizarre, in which my story, “The Comments Gaze Also Into You,” was included.

So that’s all my writing news for now. I’m not sure much else will happen, publishing wise, before the end of the year, so I’ll just call this my writing-year-in-review post. I’ll blog again! But likely not a lot of news until one of these various projects finds a home.

I’ll ask though — what are y’all up to?  Drop me a line in the comments with any news, writing projects, or things you’re excited about being involved in!