Publishing a sequel...

So now what? So now what?

Les jeux sont fait, as the saying might go, although I’m not totally sure it’s “fait.” Fais? No, I think it’s fait. The die is cast. It’s done, is what I mean.

Now I’m sitting here trying not to be overwhelmed by everything I ignored to get this far, and having that existential feeling of envy, dread, and terror about the whole thing. As Second said to “Polla:” “Tree in forest falls?”

Does anyone hear it?

I don’t know. I do live in a forest, of sorts, but here mostly we hope the trees don’t fall.

I may be veering off topic, and not in an interesting way. So now what? Now I hope people read, review, and most importantly enjoy Navvies’ Flight. If you’re a subscriber to my substack, or have just found your way to this page in some other way… I will offer you a free copy. As per terms with Amazon (which I just checked), I can’t offer you a book in exchange for a review, but I will be frank and say that hoping for reviews is why I am offering. I think book two is really good. I think parts of it may even be great.

So, next order of business, dusting myself off… and then, Book Three. I’m not anticipating more than one more book in this serious, although I have a prequel planned that’s about Young Genghis and Young Nextel and their friendship. And, considering everything, Mortons Rebika will be in there too. “The Prince and the Pauper” in space was my first idea. So… expect some more identity shenanigans. It will probably be mostly set on this dying, domed Earth, and deal with 12Fam machinations. But I suspect there may be some Aemercy in there, too.

Back to Book Three… where do we go from here? To Nuala Erta, of course. Expect a lot more Faege, and probably some Faege pov characters. Fabienne’s the obvious one, but she may not be the only. In my drafts now, I have a lot of multi-pov points… not sure how many will survive the final restructuring.

The heart of the book will continue to be Polla. Or maybe I should say “Pollas.”

Before any of that, however, I have a whole lot of beta reading myself to catch up on. Everyone who was so kind to help with NF… I owe you the moon and stars. Working on paying it back.

May we live in less interesting times.