I thought I'd ramble briefly about the second book in the Conspirator Saga trilogy for those of you who are interested. I'm presently about two-thirds done with the manuscript, but the writing is always the easy part; the rest depends on my editors. If all goes well -- and quickly -- we might see a summer 2013 release for the second book, which I am tentatively titling Soul-Killer Virangaza.
I should admit that my writing speed is nothing if not inconsistent. Generally I write in frantic bursts of activity followed by long periods of sloth and torpor. So, ten chapters in five days to complete a story arc, then three weeks of playing osu! or World of Warcraft (anyone need a druid or paladin healer?). Not to mention I've also taken it upon myself to write a MUD from scratch in Java. So when I say "summer 2013," you should take that with a very large grain of salt. Like a salt lick.
Whereas Champion Zeon was more of an action-espionage story, Soul-Killer Virangaza is going to be similar but with some tearjerker elements. The title itself is a loose reference to two such events near the end of the book, though there will be others. This is something I highly prefer in the books I read, and I write what I want to read, so Zeon was actually something of an oddity for me in that it had more action and fewer emotive character moments. But all that stuff had to happen in order to put the rest of the story in context.
On an unrelated note, my story "One in a Thousand" won the sci-fi category in the 2012 short-story contests held by Fresh Ink Group. I believe it will be viewable at some point in the near future, so keep an eye on the FIG page.
