Castaways: Coming to Audio!
Good morning, friends! It’s been a bit, so just bringing you a quick update from the studio. My biggest news of the day is that Podium Publishing is bringing the Castaways series to audio, narrated by the fantastic Susannah Jones! Book one is up for preorder now, available on September 30th, and the first two books were recorded back to back so the sequel won’t take much longer.
On that note, I’m in early rewrites on Castaways book three, which I’m hoping to have out for the holidays. To paraphrase an old Saturday Night Live bit, this club has everything: void pirates, a return to a certain location from the Wisdom’s Grave trilogy, a crew of chaotic rat mercenaries (including an unhinged rat-girl who has dark designs on Dalton), a visit to Professor Chalk’s homeworld, a forty-foot-tall kaiju (AKA The Reason We Don’t Go to Yellow-Class Worlds), and Colin doing his best Ferris Bueller impression as he tries to coordinate an interdimensional rescue mission while faking a bad case of stomach flu. It should be a good time.
The upcoming Neon Meridian series, from Aethon Books, is getting ready to roll. Book one is finished, edited, and in the cover design phase right now, so I hope to have a release date for you soon. Book two (tentatively titled The Glitter Machine) has been finished, submitted, and is currently in editing.
I’ve been asked if more Daniel Faust and Harmony Black novels are coming, and the answer is yes, absolutely. I just have to prioritize books with solid publisher deadlines (‘cause folks get mad if you blow those), and shuffle stuff around in my writing schedule accordingly. The next Faust novel is outlined, but it needs more work before I start really breaking ground on it; the outline is currently…fine. It works. But I want it to be better than “fine,” and I’m going to keep plugging at the story until I feel like it’s really firing on all cylinders.
And that’s all I can talk about for now! I’m going to get right back to work over here, and put in some overtime (because tomorrow is Forbidden Door, a massive AEW pro wrestling pay-per-view special, and let’s be honest, I’m getting nothing done that day.) Have a great weekend!
