Sky Trained Retrospective, Looking Ahead to 'Containment'

Sky Trained

The rush of releasing something new is already starting to fade, as it does, though so far I am quite pleased with how 'Sky Trained' has done. It has more or less matched 'The Rubber Order' in terms of sales, making it one of my best sellers (which doesn't say much, as to be quite honest, I'm not exactly going to show up on the New York Time's bestseller list).

Be that as it may, I'm quite pleased with the small niche it has found. It's not wildly successful to the point that I'd try to run out and write a sequel, but at least it's helping me to get a better feel for what sort of thing people are interested in reading in this little niche of ours.

For those who have picked it up, I do hope that you are enjoying it!

Containment

Work has quietly continued on my next story, which currently weights in at 69K words. I am writing the final chapter, after which I have a short epilogue to tack on (and author notes, of course), and then it will be done. I fully expect that to happen within the next week, after which it will go into editing.

Since it's a shorter novel than Sky Trained, a super rough estimate is that it will be released at some point in August.

I don't have any plans for the next writing project yet, though it's likely to either be a short, or a sequel of some kind to 'The Rubber Order.' I'm not planning on using the same characters again, per se, but I will be writing in the same universe.

In the meantime, to whet your appetite, here's a synopsis I recently finished writing for Containment:

"Raven’s rock band is down on its luck, and seemingly about to split up, until she discovers the extra dimensional entity hiding in her father’s bass guitar. Now, she’s having fun rocking out with her bandmates, but they’ve all been turned into a matching set of IT’s glossy black rubber smoke demons!

Wendy works for an organization trying to keep IT’s transformed Things out of our dimension, but she’s run into a bit of a snag - they’ve recently captured an AI core, which is dead set on converting her and everyone around her into sex starved Hive drones.

In a brutal battle for control of the city and each other’s hearts and minds, if either of them wins, everyone loses!"