As a new year begins to unfold around us, the writers here at Mercury Retrograde are readying themselves for a whole new onslaught on this writing career business. Edward Morris, for example, writes in that:
I am living with a group of artists and writers in a house in Northeast Portland and fitting in like a brand-new fuel injector. Good people. I have never written so quickly in my life, or so powerfully. Working on new material for Blackguard, and also just submitted SOMA & BILE, my third collection of published works, to Wildside. Looking to expand in a lot of areas as soon as I move all the way in and find the other lobes of my brain…
Author, editor, and publisher Barbara Friend Ish is even busier. She says of herself:
I spent last month celebrating family and friends, and fitting in work where I could. Now I’m back with a vengeance, bouncing between the study and the office. In the study I’m still wrestling two novels simultaneously (the tentatively titled The Heart of the Darkness and The Lord of the Abyss, the sequels to The Shadow of the Sun) with an eye towards having the second volume of the series ready for release late this year…and working with the guys from Cliché Studio on the electronic version of the Fortunes game. In the office I’m practicing the Mercury Retrograde discipline of tying up loose ends and working with editorial and business colleagues to prepare an exciting new year–more on this as it shakes out. And I’m getting ready for a fantastic line-up of appearances. (Details pending–watch for a post about that soon!)
Leona Wisoker is busy with appearances and such herself:
With the rewrite of book 3 in the Children of the Desert series well on its way to completion, a handful of conventions (MarsCon of Williamsburg, Mysticon, MadiCon (my first ever Guest of Honor appearance! I’m really excited about this one!), and the VA Festival of the Book (among others) already scheduled, plans to teach a class at the Muse Writing Center this summer, and a scattering of other projects both personal and professional on the calendar, this looks like it’s going to be an even more fabulous year than 2011!
Zachary Steele will also be at MystiCon this year; he’s currently working on his latest project, The Storyteller. Larissa Niec is scheduled to appear at WisCon, and is “putting the final touches on the Cael’s Shadow manuscript. Finally!”
Overall, the forecast for the year ahead looks pretty sunny–so take a close look at the appearances list, and the author pages linked above, and plan to come out and play with us! We’d love to see you.
