In terms of
sales and publications, 2013 has been my most successful yet, though certainly
not my most prolific. In terms of writing I’ve done pretty well too.
I’ve written
8 stories this year – 5 of them flash fiction and 7 of them in the first half
of the year. I wrote Hiking in My Head
in January and it was published in Daily
Science Fiction in August. Ode to an
Earthworm was completed in May and published in Looking Landwards in October. The book launch for Looking Landwards at BristolCon was my
first, in which I sat on the platform and talked about my story, as well as
signing 100 sheets for the limited hardback edition. The others stories are
still biding their time, or being edited. From April onwards I concentrated on
my novel Galaxy’s Game and wrote 60,000
words to complete it in December.
In total I’ve
had 4 semi-pro and 2 professional publications this year, along with 3 more
appearances for The Gondolier, in
Serbian, German and Ligurian. The year was rounded off nicely with the sale of The Sound of Death to IGMS, due out in
the spring.
Meanwhile I’ve
collected together my 10 stories that have appeared in Spanish and with
permissions from the various translators put them together into an e-book that
should be ready to launch early in the new year.
So another half
dozen short stories are queuing up to be written, one novel is several thousand
words in, several more novels are suggesting themselves to me. Looks like 2014
could be pretty busy!
