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Hello.

I got the grant! This means that I’m contracted to finish most of the novel this summer, but I hope to finish all of it. Well, “finish” is a strong word, given that the editing and rewriting will take an intense amount of time. But the first draft will be (mostly) complete.

I finished version 1.0 of Only Human, which I have called DARC Continent and Grim Prognosis before. You’re supposed to read it after Best Investigator, but it chronologically comes first; it’s essentially the prequel. All things considered, that’s probably sloppy and needlessly confusing writing, but actually STARTING the story with Mallow seems too unnatural at this point. So hopefully you can deal with reading a prequel.

Grim Prognosis will take a lot of work before it will be publishable. I expect that I’ll end up putting another 30-50 hours of reading/editing/rewriting before I even get it to the point where I feel confident sending it (as part of a larger work) to a publisher… who will give me an editor.

You can see what I have planned for the 9-10 short stories at the Storyboard. As for the chapters that I have already completed (labelled 1, 12, 15 and 20 under Chapters in the sidebar), I will work those into the short-stories focused on Oliver Ryan, Hunter, and/or Dr. Fox/Catastrophe. Probably mostly Ryan.

I’m still working on the Best Investigator revision. I’m dealing with a problem I don’t quite understand; a significant amount of my audience was hopelessly confused, so much so that I think the work approached anger-inducing levels. That kind of problem is a bit more complicated than grammatical or diction choices, so it’ll take me time to resolve.

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