The Sunday Circle: What Are You Working On This Week?

The Sunday Circle is the weekly check-in where I ask the creative-types who follow this blog to weigh in about their goals, inspirations, and challenges for the coming week. The logic behind it can be found here. Want to be involved? It’s easy – just answer three questions in the comments or on your own blog (with a link in the comments here, so that everyone can find them).

After that, throw some thoughts around about other people’s projects, ask questions if you’re so inclined. Be supportive above all.

Then show up again next Sunday when the circle updates next, letting us know how you did on your weekly project and what you’ve got coming down the pipe in the coming week (if you’d like to part of the circle, without subscribing to the rest of the blog, you can sign-up for reminders via email here).

MY CHECK-IN

What am I working on this week?

I’m ten thousand words into a crime novella at the moment, and in another two thousand or so I’ll hit a natural stopping point in the structure and set it aside to do spend some quality time on thesis novellas. Specifically, Project Bug, which I’d like to have done to submit to my supervisor before the end of january.

What’s inspiring me this week?

Kathleen Jennings sold me on Tessa Dare’s Romancing The Duke via the suggestion that it’s a regency romance about Star Wars fandom. I couldn’t picture such a thing, but dove into the novel regardless…and was immediately rewarded by a phenomenal regency that was, 100%, about Star Wars Fandom (among other things).

What impressed me most is that even with the warning, I didn’t pick up on straight away. The Star Wars riffs are so bald-faced that I overlooked them, and it’s not until the regency equivalent of a Comicon shows up it actually clicked. 

What action do I need to take?

It’s looking like Brain Jar will expanding its stable of authors beyond me next year, which means one of my pressing tasks is pulling together a contract outlining terms. Harder than it sounds, given the existence of ebooks and print on demand, as the return of rights gets a bit stickier due to the lfact that books are never truly “out of print.”