I am between fiction projects, and I decided to really push on a project that has been on the back burner for over a year. It's a book about nonprofit technology, the field I've spent the last 18 years in, 12 years full-time.
A few odds and ends today. Fridays are good days for odds and ends.
First, I wanted to let people know what I'm working on, and what to look out for in the next few months. I have two books that are completed in not-so-drafty form. I think I've mentioned them both before.
"Going vertical" is a phrase used often in non-fiction and memoir writing. Going vertical means that in a sense, you are going deeper (and sometimes also higher) in perspective and description at certain points in a book. In memoir, this might involve delving much more deeply into a specific happening, or zoom out to look at the very big picture.
I love books, I always have. Ever since I could read, I read all the time. I don't read nearly as much as I used to, because I write so much, but there was a time when I would read three or four nonfiction books a month, and five or six fiction books a month. Now, it's more like one fiction book a month and one non-fiction book every couple of months.
I love to write about travel, and when I think about each of the books I've written, travel of one sort or another is an important, or even central, theme.
This series is about the joy of worldbuilding. I didn't quite think I'd spread this out into so many posts, but I guess I have a lot of joy to talk about!
One of the more interesting parts of making up new intelligent beings, or new societies, is to think about language. Many science fiction stories and novels skip over these details entirely, because, well, they are hard. I've made my share of mistakes, and I know that I'm not anywhere near to getting as good at dealing with langauge as some writers. I think I suffer from being basically monolingual (unless you count programming languages).
My next upcoming novel is called Becoming Queen. I'm doing final edits and formatting. Release Date: May 15, eBook only. Here's the blurb: 
I am between fiction projects, and I decided to really push on 
"Going vertical" is a phrase used often in non-fiction and memoir writing. Going vertical means that in a sense, you are going deeper (and sometimes also higher) in perspective and description at certain points in a book. In memoir, this might involve delving much more deeply into a specific happening, or zoom out to look at the very big picture.
I love books, I always have. Ever since I could read, I read all the time. I don't read nearly as much as I used to, because I write so much, but there was a time when I would read three or four nonfiction books a month, and five or six fiction books a month. Now, it's more like one fiction book a month and one non-fiction book every couple of months.
I love to write about travel, and when I think about each of the books I've written, travel of one sort or another is an important, or even central, theme. 
One of the more interesting parts of making up new intelligent beings, or new societies, is to think about language. Many science fiction stories and novels skip over these details entirely, because, well, they are hard. I've made my share of mistakes, and I know that I'm not anywhere near to getting as good at dealing with langauge as some writers. I think I suffer from being basically monolingual (unless you count programming languages).