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seanan_mcguire) wrote2008-08-15 12:18 pm
seanan_mcguire) wrote2008-08-15 12:18 pm
Current projects.
It's time for the August installment of 'Seanan's current projects,' the post where I explain what I'm working on and what its status happens to be! Please note that Rosemary and Rue and A Local Habitation have once again vanished from this list, as they have finished another stage in the revision process and been returned to DAW. The next input I'm gonna have will come with the ARCs. Ah, progress. It smells like fear.
The cut-tag endures, because this list is getting slowly longer and longer. This is a natural consequence of living inside my head, where the darkness is. The darkness and the pumpkin pie and the bats. The bats have plague, by the way.
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An Artificial Night.
October Daye, book three. Urban fantasy/fairy tale noir, modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: sold, in the final stages of the pre-DAW revision process; I expect to turn it in by the end of the month.
Newsflesh.
Modern political/zombie horror, near-future setting, first-person protagonist. Rise up while you can. Status: I'm processing the final edits before passing this to my agent, and should be 'turning it in' in the next week or so. This book has really come along amazingly, thanks to some incredible subject matter experts, and I love it.
The Mourning Edition.
Modern political/zombie horror, near-future setting, first-person protagonist. The sequel to Newsflesh, obviously, which, because I'm the one writing it, has turned into a trilogy. Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Status: I'm about ten thousand words in, and things are gathering steam. Steam made of being AWESOME.
Late Eclipses of the Sun.
October Daye, book four. Urban fantasy/fairy tale noir, modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: first-pass rewrites are done, and this book is now hitting the first stages of the proofing and revision pool. It's glorious.
The Brightest Fell.
October Daye, book five. Urban fantasy/fairy tale noir, modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: preparing to resume work on the book, which was about halfway finished when I got distracted by revising the first three. Whee-ha!
Ashes of Honor.
October Daye, book six. Urban fantasy/fairy tale noir, modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: outlining.
Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues.
Coyote Girls, book one. Young adult horror/supernatural romance. Modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: done! Finally done! I've started the first-pass rewrites, and I'm about five chapters in. Call it draft 1.5 -- not quite a second draft, but very much a smooth and repair.
Discount Armageddon.
Incryptid, book one. Urban horror/modern dark fantasy, still feeling out whether it's a first- or third-person protagonist situation. First narrator is Verity 'Very' Price, first setting is Manhattan/Jersey City. Status: outline done, preparing to do sample chapters to determine the POV.
Upon A Star.
Young adult comedy/romance. Drama kids are awesome. So is amnesia. So are the adventures of Babylon Archer. Modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: pending rewrites.
Deathless.
Dead Girl Diaries, book one. Modern urban fantasy/supernatural romance, first-person protagonist, two books per narrator. (First two are Deathless and Breathless, for Grace.) Status: poking in that vague and chipper 'I'll be writing you soon' fashion.
The Nativity of Chance.
High modern fantasy ranging across the country, through the wonderful lands of Oz, and through a lot of explosions. Pythagorean philosophy meets the works of L. Frank Baum, alchemy meets modern technology, and a pair of cuckoos meet their destiny. Status: researching.
There are lots of other books floating around here -- some finished and slated to be worked on further, others pending getting started -- but these are the ones you're likely to hear the most about, at least currently. I'll probably update this list from time to time, as things move from 'project' to 'print', and new things take their places on the workshop floor.
The cut-tag endures, because this list is getting slowly longer and longer. This is a natural consequence of living inside my head, where the darkness is. The darkness and the pumpkin pie and the bats. The bats have plague, by the way.
***
An Artificial Night.
October Daye, book three. Urban fantasy/fairy tale noir, modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: sold, in the final stages of the pre-DAW revision process; I expect to turn it in by the end of the month.
Newsflesh.
Modern political/zombie horror, near-future setting, first-person protagonist. Rise up while you can. Status: I'm processing the final edits before passing this to my agent, and should be 'turning it in' in the next week or so. This book has really come along amazingly, thanks to some incredible subject matter experts, and I love it.
The Mourning Edition.
Modern political/zombie horror, near-future setting, first-person protagonist. The sequel to Newsflesh, obviously, which, because I'm the one writing it, has turned into a trilogy. Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Status: I'm about ten thousand words in, and things are gathering steam. Steam made of being AWESOME.
Late Eclipses of the Sun.
October Daye, book four. Urban fantasy/fairy tale noir, modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: first-pass rewrites are done, and this book is now hitting the first stages of the proofing and revision pool. It's glorious.
The Brightest Fell.
October Daye, book five. Urban fantasy/fairy tale noir, modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: preparing to resume work on the book, which was about halfway finished when I got distracted by revising the first three. Whee-ha!
Ashes of Honor.
October Daye, book six. Urban fantasy/fairy tale noir, modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: outlining.
Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues.
Coyote Girls, book one. Young adult horror/supernatural romance. Modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: done! Finally done! I've started the first-pass rewrites, and I'm about five chapters in. Call it draft 1.5 -- not quite a second draft, but very much a smooth and repair.
Discount Armageddon.
Incryptid, book one. Urban horror/modern dark fantasy, still feeling out whether it's a first- or third-person protagonist situation. First narrator is Verity 'Very' Price, first setting is Manhattan/Jersey City. Status: outline done, preparing to do sample chapters to determine the POV.
Upon A Star.
Young adult comedy/romance. Drama kids are awesome. So is amnesia. So are the adventures of Babylon Archer. Modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: pending rewrites.
Deathless.
Dead Girl Diaries, book one. Modern urban fantasy/supernatural romance, first-person protagonist, two books per narrator. (First two are Deathless and Breathless, for Grace.) Status: poking in that vague and chipper 'I'll be writing you soon' fashion.
The Nativity of Chance.
High modern fantasy ranging across the country, through the wonderful lands of Oz, and through a lot of explosions. Pythagorean philosophy meets the works of L. Frank Baum, alchemy meets modern technology, and a pair of cuckoos meet their destiny. Status: researching.
There are lots of other books floating around here -- some finished and slated to be worked on further, others pending getting started -- but these are the ones you're likely to hear the most about, at least currently. I'll probably update this list from time to time, as things move from 'project' to 'print', and new things take their places on the workshop floor.
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Have a great weekend!
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In other news, I like plague bats. Plague bats are good. Which is one reason the primary nemesis in one of the aforementioned novel is an evil bat deity.
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Very impressive list; huge good luckiness with it all!
Merry
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