

The publication schedule is The Falcon Soars (May), The Shattered Drum (July), and Before We Died (September). In Before We Died, the river in question is the Amazon, circa 1910.

Second, I have two other Five Directions Press novels in the final stages of typesetting and proofing: Gabrielle Mathieu’s The Falcon Soars, which concludes her excellent Falcon trilogy and Joan Schweighardt’s Before We Died, which kicks off a new trilogy, Rivers. For one thing, I have two novels on the brink of completion: The Shattered Drum, already critiqued and revised and Song of the Siren, which has passed one beta reader and is waiting for comments from another before proceeding to final draft status. I even try to schedule my podcast so that neither questions for the authors nor the interviews themselves intervene.īut this time is different. In a perfect world that’s all I do for the entire nine (or however many) days-with breaks for eating, sleeping, and family, of course. Normally, when I have a writing vacation as I did this week, I write.
