Nothing at all has happened with regard to looking for an agent. My day job (I work in IT), my evening jobs (I teach Uke and do videos for bands), politics (officer in a local green party) and a dozen other things ate up my time.
However, there is one project that I would like to mention that is going pretty well. I started work on a hard SF novel. The crew of the Sarafina had a hyperspace jump go very wrong indeed and find themselves in very much the wrong place. The characters seem to be working out OK. The background is about right. The pacing is a bit brisker than Someone to believe in me because it is a different book. The voice is different too. Not better and not worse but different. It suits this topic better than the very English style of Someone.
Will it sell? Will it find an agent? I don't know but I do know that I am enjoying the writing. Even if it doesn't do well commercially, it is worth doing for that. Of course, it would be good to get a stack of cash for it as well. Dreaming is free.
I will get back to searching for agents over the summer. The market may have changed and there are many, many agents that I haven't yet approached.
Z-day is still selling a few copies a month. It would be nice to get a few more reviews out there but the ones that I have are very positive.
I am about 20,000 words into the new book with the plot and character arcs pretty well defined. I will be looking for test readers in a few months. I also need to come up with a title. It is strange how hard it is to choose just a few words sometimes.
Be well, gentle reader
Mark
