The nursery is painted, furnished, and outfitted pretty much with every Huggie and HandiWipe known to man. The kid has more (and better) clothes than the wife and I combined. There are car seats, high chairs, teething rings and stuffed animals galore. It's 100 degrees outside and Michi is just about over the "Gee, this being pregnant thing is pretty neat" thing, which is punctuated every time the kid kicks her in the ribs. I've started to get the looks that say "This is all your fault, bastard."
August is gonna be fun.
Anyway, there was still some progress on the writing front this month:
- Summon the Thunder - Book is out and seems to be doing well. I'm about halfway through a set of annotations for the book, which I'll post to the site here shortly.
- Things Fall Apart - Mere Anarchy: Book 1 - Received galley proof pages from editor Keith DeCandido, and we returned our final corrections on July 13th. The e-Book is expected to go live sometime around the middle of August. I've also created a guide page for the entire mini-series.
- "First, Do No Harm" - for the Constellations anthology. Returned galley corrections to the editor on May 12th. This one is a done deal until it shows up in stores!
- Corps of Engineers #1: Turn the Page - Manuscript delivered to the editor on June 19th. Received editorial feedback and revisions were completed, and now we're awaiting licensor approval.
- Age of the Empress: The Reign of Sato I - for Star Trek: Mirror Universe - Glass Empires. A novel of approximately 50,000 words, with Kevin and I assisting former Enterprise staff writer/producer Mike Sussman with the writing. Manuscript delivered to the editor on July 24th, and we've already received preliminary feedback. Cover art is now available for your viewing pleasure on the book's page. The novel will share space with a TOS story by Dave Mack and a TNG tale by Greg Cox.
- Original SF short story - For an open-call anthology. Story sent to editor on January 23rd. Waiting to see if it's accepted or rejected.
- Original SF short story - For an open-call anthology. Story sent to editor on July 30th. Waiting to see if it's accepted or rejected.
- Original short story - Outlined and a partial draft is complete. The next item on my list of things to do. Trying to get a few of these lingering short story ideas out of the way before the baby shows up....
- Original SF short story - I've outlined the first short story based in the "universe" of The Last World War. This is one is second on my aforementioned list. More info to come as I move forward on it.
- Counterstrike: The Last World War, Book II - Proposal is still in limbo.
- Trek novel solo project - Awaiting editor feedback on proposal.
- Trek novel project with Kevin - Awaiting editor feedback on proposal.
- Tie-in project with Kevin - Kevin has created a third version of this proposal, and is still waiting on me to get off my ass and work on it myself.
- Trek tie-in project - Nothing much more than a hare-brained idea at this point, I've nevertheless written a five-page proposal for it. Not sure if it ever will see the light of day, but I figure it's good for giving the editor a laugh.
- Two articles for Star Trek Communicator magazine with Kevin - These are still on hold pending word on direction of the magazine. Last word I got was that it would be late 2006 or early 2007 before anything would happen.
- Non-fiction/non-genre article (or series of articles) for local/regional magazine or newspaper - Still hanging in limbo. No market for it, so the fire's not really there to write it at the moment.
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