Finishing my latest #wip while listening to Interstellar soundtrack. THE FEELS!! #amwriting #scifi
— Joe Vasicek (@onelowerlight) December 10, 2015
Yesterday I finished the second draft of Captives in Obscurity (Sons of the Starfarers: Book V). I’m extremely pleased with how it turned out, and I think you guys are really going to enjoy it!
Unfortunately, writing the book is only the first step. Publishing is going to take resources that I don’t currently have, so it’s going to be a few months before I can get it out. Right now, it looks like Captives in Obscurity will go up for pre-order sometime in April/May, for a release date in July.
In the meantime, I plan to start working on Book VI: Patriots in Retreat right away, in order to release it soon after. With luck, there should be three Sons of the Starfarers books published next year, with only two left to complete the series.
I’ve got so many awesome ideas for stuff to fit into the next few books. Captives in Obscurity and Patriots in Retreat fall squarely into the midpoint of the series, where the characters hit rock bottom right before the plot twist. In other words, this is where I really get to twist the knife, and if you’ve read my other books you know that that’s the part I like best!
So yeah, it’s going to be a while before these books come out, but they are really going to be awesome when they do. In the meantime, I’ve got some short stories coming off of submission in the next couple of months, including a Sad Puppies inspired piece that I want to have up before the Hugos are in the news again. So even if it takes some time for Captives in Obscurity to get out there, I’m definitely not going away!
Well done sir, well done!! I am about 75% of the way through my first novel and now I have a greater respect for those that have successfully finished novels! 🙂 Keep up the good work!! Will you be releasing your other series as compellation? Like each series sold in a single eBook to make it easier for the readers?
For Star Wanderers and Sons of the Starfarers, I’ve got the omnibus editions (or “box sets”) and plan to keep doing those. But it might be useful to do a “The Complete Star Wanderers” or “The Complete Sons of the Starfarers” at some point in the future. The trouble is that at price points above $9.99, Amazon cuts your royalties significantly. At the other retailers, though, it isn’t as much of an issue, so it might make sense to give that a shot.
Yikes, I must have missed the “box sets”! Can you post the Amazon links for those specifically? And it’s good to know about the royalty issue with Amazon, they certainly have a large effect on the literary world at the moment.