I get the occasional message asking if I'm still writing. The answer to that is a bit complex, so I decided to try to write about it here.
First, yes, I am still writing, but its been slow. I do have a full time job outside writing, so most of my writing is on evenings and weekends when I can convince myself to take a few hours to sit and type, and that doesn't always happen.
Then there is the question of what am I working on. I'll be honest, the Swarm Cycle tales have not been at the front of the queue. I do plan on finishing them. I enjoy writing about the world and it can be fun. Unfortunately, while I know my fans here enjoy those tales, they aren't ones that can be published on Amazon (at least not without some major adjustments.) So while I will try to remember to add chapters to A Woman Warrior and other stories in the universe, I'm not going to promise to put those first.
I do have one book ready for editing, if I can find an editor I can work with. Its a sci-fi tale in a new universe that I came up with a few years ago.
Beyond that I'm mostly switching between 2 different tales that also are in new universes. (the train of thought derailed a few years ago, jumped onto a new track and seems to have kidnapped my muse in the process.) I've been working on one the past week or so, but its just 16K words in so its a long, long way from completion.
But that's what's up. I do appreciate the messages even if I've been abnormally slow at responding. Life definitely threw me a number of curve balls in the last 3 years and I'm still trying to get back to an equilibrium I can be comfortable in.