It’s been a couple of weeks since I finished my last story, the still-untitled YA novelette. I’m getting that restless feeling. I should be working on something new. There are a couple of options before me.

One is to begin writing a sequel to The Grimhold Wolf, my gothic werewolf novel. I wrote it in 2013-14 and it was published in 2017 by Sky Warrior Books. I intended all along to write a sequel to Grimhold, but the publisher basically stopped communicating with me. Then other projects took priority. Now there’s going to be a re-issue with Wolfsinger in 2024.

Since about 2018, there was a shift in my authorial philosophy. (See my blog, last week.) I’ve been hesitating because Grimhold is much more violent that I currently like to present. However, as part of the preparations for the re-issue, I’ve re-read Grimhold and there are still lots of possibilities. I’ve begun lining out who the POV characters should be and how their goals conflict. After all, I’m a creative person. Surely I can be true to the first book while shaping it for my current direction.

My other option is a new character who’s been intriguing me. Cloud’s power is potentially very interesting. I would write her story for an anthology that opens early in 2024, which gives me plenty of time. Or, perhaps not. I’ll have to pause along the way for other publishing stuff like The Tale of the Drakanox. So it might be better to work on Cloud’s story before getting into the longer process of a novel.

It’s a good position to be in, honestly. Two strong projects and time to decide.

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