Here we are again!
I just sent in the series contract for Beltrunner: Aftermath, which is the unplanned sequel to Beltrunner from 2018. I hadn't planned on a sequel--in fact, as far as I was concerned, the story was over. Collier's arc was done. Oh, sure, I left a lot unsaid, but I've always hewn to the "leave 'em wanting more" theory. Or maybe it's the "learn to shut up" theory, whatever.
Anyway, I wrote Silent Manifest in the intervening years, and even completed a still-unpublished trilogy that I quite like, before turning back to Collier and Sancho and their misadventures ("adventures, old friend!"). I don't have that many reviews of Beltrunner (as of this writing, somewhere around eighty on Amazon) but a number of them kept saying "Can't wait for the next one!"
"Next one? What next one? Are you people insane? The story is over!" I heard myself cry. Then my publisher arranged for an audiobook for Beltrunner, and for the promotion I wrote a little short story prequel folks could only get if they pre-ordered the audiobook, and wouldn't you know it, pretty soon Collier and Sancho were back in my head.
Mild spoilers ahead.
It took a little while, but I found a new story for them which tied up some loose ends while creating some more new ones, and I found revisiting those two and their new relationship. They were just as fun as I remembered them, and so I finished Aftermath. The publishing world works slowly, so it was a little while after I'd submitted it before it was accepted, but eventually it was, and now we begin the process all over again.
Spoilers done.
Here's the thing, though: the contract my publisher sent me was a SERIES contract, which I'd never seen before. I don't know about what it's like in the big leagues but down here in Triple A ball a series contract is a lot like a regular contract except that the next book(s) in the series have to go to this publisher first. Well, yeah. Who else would touch this?
Hang on.
The next book?
I guess I'm still not done.
Be seeing you!
I just sent in the series contract for Beltrunner: Aftermath, which is the unplanned sequel to Beltrunner from 2018. I hadn't planned on a sequel--in fact, as far as I was concerned, the story was over. Collier's arc was done. Oh, sure, I left a lot unsaid, but I've always hewn to the "leave 'em wanting more" theory. Or maybe it's the "learn to shut up" theory, whatever.
Anyway, I wrote Silent Manifest in the intervening years, and even completed a still-unpublished trilogy that I quite like, before turning back to Collier and Sancho and their misadventures ("adventures, old friend!"). I don't have that many reviews of Beltrunner (as of this writing, somewhere around eighty on Amazon) but a number of them kept saying "Can't wait for the next one!"
"Next one? What next one? Are you people insane? The story is over!" I heard myself cry. Then my publisher arranged for an audiobook for Beltrunner, and for the promotion I wrote a little short story prequel folks could only get if they pre-ordered the audiobook, and wouldn't you know it, pretty soon Collier and Sancho were back in my head.
Mild spoilers ahead.
It took a little while, but I found a new story for them which tied up some loose ends while creating some more new ones, and I found revisiting those two and their new relationship. They were just as fun as I remembered them, and so I finished Aftermath. The publishing world works slowly, so it was a little while after I'd submitted it before it was accepted, but eventually it was, and now we begin the process all over again.
Spoilers done.
Here's the thing, though: the contract my publisher sent me was a SERIES contract, which I'd never seen before. I don't know about what it's like in the big leagues but down here in Triple A ball a series contract is a lot like a regular contract except that the next book(s) in the series have to go to this publisher first. Well, yeah. Who else would touch this?
Hang on.
The next book?
I guess I'm still not done.
Be seeing you!
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