osprey_archer | July Writing and August Goals

In July I finished editing the proof copy of Honeytrap, and I’ve also nailed down a cover designer to make the cover in mid-August, so we’re looking at an early September release date.

I’ve also a short story this month for an f/f charity anthology on the theme “magical pets,” which is coming out this autumn. You should buy it! Not just because of my story (“The Mating Call of the Teleporting Warbler”), and not just because it’s for a good cause, but because it will be full of adorable magical pet goodness, and who doesn’t need some of that in the year of our lord 2020?

I also intended to finish a story for the m/m companion anthology, but instead I finally - FINALLY - got an idea that seems to be shaping up for a new novella (1920s bohemian New York m/m, currently ~10,000 words long), so I’ve been writing away on the theory that you’ve got to strike while the iron is hot. However, I imagine I will bog down sometime in August (there’s generally a middle of the story “why did I ever think I could write anything?” slump), at which point I will turn my attention to the m/m magical pets story.