With tonight’s full moon, I have published the first 18,000 words of my novel, “Someone Liche You” at alternative publisher Red Lemonade.

The complete first part of the novel is now online. The scene is set up, the action is rising, and things are happening. Can Mara and Kevin find their way through the chaos?

Published today:

• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13

Of note: I cut a lot of technobable and info dumping out of this revision at this point. There was, at one point, a full page of info dumping about the mechanisms and theories behind the way Kevin’s Multi-Tool worked and interfaced with biotronic devices and how it was, as a mechanical device, not susceptible to a system-wide failure, such as the New City was experiencing.

I remember when I was writing it, I got to about the tenth chapter explaining the device, and thinking, “Ok. Stop writing about this and get to the action.”

And so I did.

Up next:
In part two, the novel switches story-lines, introducing new characters: Gregor, the Junk Mine, and, of course, Cursor the overweight corgi.