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Current Projects Novels Sara is currently working on writing books 2 and 5 of the After Earth series. Additionally, she is writing a series of short stories set in the Congressional world that tell of the shaping of Congress and its history. Update 1/30/07: The rough drafts of Book 2 (tentatively called The Team) and Book 5 (Forgotten) are finished. Have begun a stand-alone about Forgotten's early life, called (at least on my word processor) One in a Billion. Now to edit... Update 1/30/08: The Rockfarmer War fantasy novel is 2/3 of the way complete, standing at 109k words as of Wednesday, January 30th, 2008. The finished product will probably be around 180k words. Update 11/01/09: The first draft of the 2008-2009 sci-fi mailing-list novel, Fortune's Fall (formerly titled Outer Bounds), Book 1 of the Lords of Fortune series, is complete. My current novel projects include writing Lords of Fortune Book 2: Fortune's Struggle, as well as brainstorming and drafting Book 2 of the Millennium Potion series, exploring a possible continuation of the After Earth series, finishing the Sleeping Lady Lodge Alaskan horror novel, and writing a fantasy novel, tentatively called A Dragon Chained, in the new Dragon of the Glen universe. Short Stories Update 1/30/07: Currently submitting short stories to speculative fiction magazines. Stories set in Congressional world: The Vkala, Beda and Shael, The Lab, Preserved, Syuri, The Geuji, The Moldy Dead, Cure of a Lifetime. Horror stories: The Candle, Trimmings, The Certificate, The Dog, Ancient History, Walled In. Misc. Stories: Dead Tired. Update 1/30/08: 34 short stories written and submitted in 2007. The next project, short-story wise, is to write some worldbuilding fantasy shorts in the same universe as The Rockfarmer War. Update 11/01/09:WENT TO ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOP, YEAH!!!! Only a handful of short stories written and submitted in 2008-2009, despite going to Odyssey. Have been focusing on novels, instead. Sold "Planetside" to Baen's Universe. Sold "Froggy, with Flooding and a Chance of Murder" to Interzone. Sold "Cheap Real Estate" and "Glacial Melt" to Shroud. "The Auldhund" and "The Sheet Charmer of Broketoe" both received semi-finalists in the Writers of the Future Contest, while "Marked by Wings of War" and "Fury of the Sphinx" both received HMs in the same. Am thinking about fleshing out the Lords of Fortune universe with a few short stories giving backhistory on Tatiana, Milar, Joel, and Anna. Am similarly thinking about expanding the Dragon of the Glen universe, the Millennium Potion universe, the Form and Function universe, and the After Earth universe with short stories to build history and culture. Finally, I'll be submitting applications to the 6-week science fiction writing programs Clarion and Clarion West in 2010. |