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Happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n
It’s been a while since I put up a blog post. I’ve been burning the proverbial candle at both ends and haven’t had much time to spare for it. Stealing a few minutes here to ramble a bit.<\/p>\n
A number of exciting projects are underway. First, the editor sent back the file for Menagerie<\/a>! I’m hoping to have everything put together with that for a release sometime within the next two weeks.<\/p>\n I’m also working on two second editions, re-releasing The Eldritch Heart<\/a> and Caller 107<\/a> soon with new cover art and some revisions. Caller 107 (since it’s one of my earliest books) had the most changes (something like 3,500 tweaks inside and a few thousand more words added). For those of you who’ve read the first version of The Eldritch Heart, the edits are mostly minor things like sentence flow and a couple of minor echoes. I did however make a small-but-meaningful change toward the end which will hopefully provide a more satisfying feel to how everything wraps up.<\/p>\n Also, I wound up changing the name of the stone giant from Ogun to Omun. A reader pointed out that “Ogun” is also the name of an African deity, which I had unintentionally used. Appropriately enough, he’s an “Earth God,” so naming a stone giant after him kinda worked even if it was a coincidence. Honestly, I thought I made the word up not realizing… Alas, my Google-Fu was weak. However, out of respect, I changed the name.<\/p>\n Ghost Black<\/a>, the third book in the Daughter of Mars series is scheduled for release on 5\/22, about a week away.<\/p>\n I’m also eagerly awaiting the cover art for Out of Sight<\/a>, a YA science fiction novel. The text is ready to go here, so as soon as the cover and interior art is ready, the book will be going live.<\/p>\n Citadel: The Concordant Sequence<\/a> is done with proofreading and awaiting formatting!<\/p>\n The Divergent Fates Anthology<\/a> recently had a new cover and interior formatting applied.<\/p>\n I’ve also got the outline underway for the third (as yet untitled) book in the Vampire Innocent series. (BTW the audiobook for A Nighttime of Forever<\/a> should be going live soon. It’s in the final stages over at ACX.)<\/p>\n Dead Man’s Number<\/a> just came back from the proofreader and is in queue.<\/p>\n J.R. Rain and I are working on the second Alex Silver novel, Deep Silver, which is in queue for editing. Unfortunately, I don’t have any idea of a release timeline at this point as we are both quite busy.<\/p>\n Also, paperback versions of Sophie’s Light, The Forest Beyond the Earth, A Nighttime of Forever, A Beginner’s Guide to Fangs, and the Divergent Fates Anthology are now available through Barnes & Noble.<\/p>\n So, over the next few weeks, I’ve got somewhere between 4 and 6 books expecting to release or re-release. Hence, the head-spinning.<\/p>\n Happy reading!<\/p>\n -Matt<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Wednesday! It’s been a while since I put up a blog post. I’ve been burning the proverbial candle at both ends and haven’t had much time to spare for it. Stealing a few minutes here to ramble a bit. … Continue reading