osprey_archer | Writing News

It has been some time since I posted any writing news, because it has been some time since there has in fact been any writing news, but at long last the wind has turned! I’ve been holding off on posting so as not to jinx anything, but now I have a draft, so:

1. In early October

sholio mentioned that short romance is having a Moment on Amazon, and I thought “Oh in that case perhaps I can finally write that Christmas romance I’m always talking about… if only I can get an idea…” SO ANYWAY I’ve completed a short (~12,000) Christmas romance about two rival spies, a Soviet and American, whose twenty-year rivalry culminates at a Christmas party thrown by an upper-class English doofus at a French chateau in 1991.

2. As my goal is to get this out in late November, I have backburnered poor Diary of a Cranky Bookworm yet again (SORRY SAGE), but I truly do plan to publish it next year!

3. Although possibly not until late spring as I would also like to do a short m/m Valentine’s romance… SORRY AGAIN SAGE. Have firmly forbade myself to brainstorm for this one until I’ve got Deck the Halls with Secret Agents done and dusted. Ideally it would be a bit longer, perhaps 20,000 words or so.

4. But after the Valentine’s romance! THEN I will publish Diary of a Cranky Bookworm! It truly is all ready to go except for the cover.

5. And also perhaps I will begin work on a Halloween m/m to complete the holiday trio.

6. I would also like to do an f/f holiday trio but I am not sure that I can face the exponentially lower payout. I ran the numbers one time and my m/m makes literally ten times as much as the f/f. Did I post about this before? It was discouraging. OTOH these holiday trio stories are quite short and I can write quite quickly when I’ve got an inspiration. (This is why I’ve been holding off brainstorming on Valentine’s Day, so the inspiration will be piping hot when I start.) So perhaps…

7. Honestly I’m probably procrastinating on publishing Diary of a Cranky Bookworm because I’ve been working on it on and off since 2012, and it’s about 100,000 words, and it’s a project of the heart so in a sense it doesn’t matter that it’s going to make perhaps two hundred dollars, but also that’s not exactly an incentive to publish.

8. Final news! I’m planning to wrap up my Patreon at the end of December. With a full-time job I can’t keep up with it, and also TBH I’ve missed posting WIPs here with you guys.

I’ve got some other ideas kicking around, but this post is quite long enough, so I will perhaps make another post later on.