Too many projects! ACK!!

So anywayz, just a few updates.

It’s official! I’ll be exhibiting at this year’s 20th Annual Independent and Small Press Book Fair in New York City on the weekend of December 1-2. I’m really excited about it, not only because it’s a chance to go see my family during a non-holiday period, but because of the exposure Solstice will hopefully get. And, well, it’s my first time at such a thing, and my first pure “business trip.” Yes, I get excited at the littlest things. I’m a nerd. I admit it ^__^

Oh, and I have my second book signing scheduled! This one’s at the Barnes and Noble in Troy, MI, across from the Oakland Mall. It’s for November 17, 2007, from 2-4 p.m. Really excited about that one, since it’s the B&N my girlfriend and I tend to spend most of our time at.

Well, on other literary fronts, my new novel is coming along. Rapidly @_@; I’m nearly at page 400, which is insane considering how much longer it took me to write Solstice (I started writing my new novel at around March). The funny thing is, I see this as being a very long novel, because I still have a lot of scenes and plot points to get to, and our beloved heroine, Liliana, just keeps yammering away! Oh well, it’s a first draft, so I’m sure a lot will be changed, added, subtracted, and forgotten. I guess I’m just having a blast writing that novel. It’s so refreshing to write something happy for a change ^__^

Of course, just last night, I was talking with my girlfriend about the other two projects I want to get to right after I finish writing this first draft of my new novel. One of them is entitled The Mourning Syndrome, and you can actually find a quick draft (very quick draft -_-) of the first couple of pages here. That one promises to be apocalyptic (again), but with more of a horror twist. It’ll be my homage to Japanese horror films, which I absolutely love (Kairo, Dragonhead, Suicide Club, and the Tomie movies being among some of my favorites). So I’m kind of excited to start writing that one.

But, the more I’ve talked about it with my girlfriend, the more poised I am to write…*drum roll* a sequel to Solstice. For those of you who’ve read it, I’m sure you’re thinking, “Um, how are you going to write a sequel to that?!” But, believe it or not, a story is in the works, and, if it’s at all possible, it’ll be even darker than Solstice! ^^;; Eep…

So yeah, I’m entering that phase that a lot of working writers probably enter, the phase that laments that we can’t just quit our day jobs and write non-stop. I wish I could just disappear into my favorite coffeehouse every day (I do like 60% of my writing in coffeehouses) and just plug away at my novels, maybe even working on two of them at the same time. But alas, that isn’t going to happen anytime soon, if at all. So staying up until 2 a.m. will have to continue to be the norm ^^;;

Anyway, as always, I just want to remind you that Solstice is now available at Tragical Mirth Publishing! Thanks for reading!