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Current projects.

It's time for the September installment of 'Seanan's current projects,' the post where I explain what I'm working on and what its status happens to be! Please note that Rosemary and Rue and A Local Habitation have once again vanished from this list, as they have finished another stage in the revision process and been returned to DAW. The next input I'm gonna have will come with the ARCs. Ah, progress. It smells like fear. Newsflesh and An Artificial Night are also currently off the list; they're under review with my agent, and are thus not being actively worked on.

The cut-tag endures, because this list is getting slowly longer and longer. This is a natural consequence of living inside my head, where the darkness is. The darkness and the pumpkin pie and the bats. The bats have plague, by the way.

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The Mourning Edition.
Modern political/zombie horror, near-future setting, first-person protagonist. The sequel to Newsflesh, obviously, which, because I'm the one writing it, has turned into a trilogy. Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Status: I'm about eighty pages in -- maybe a little bit more -- and things are gathering steam. Steam made of being AWESOME.

Late Eclipses of the Sun.
October Daye, book four. Urban fantasy/fairy tale noir, modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: the first two passes are done, and the proofing/revision pool has had a chance to take huge, bloody chunks out of this book. Now I'm doing cleanup revisions and cosmetic surgery, without anesthetic. This part is the fun part.

Discount Armageddon.
Incryptid, book one. Urban horror/modern dark fantasy, first-person protagonist, start of a multi-narrator series (generational). First narrator is Verity 'Very' Price, first setting is Manhattan/Jersey City. Status: several chapters in and getting a good feel for the world, which is going to serve me well in the narrative to come. Also, the series outline for the first two books is done-done-done.

The Brightest Fell.
October Daye, book five. Urban fantasy/fairy tale noir, modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: preparing to resume work on the book, which was about halfway finished when I got distracted by revising the first three. Only I think about half of what I have is going to wind up going out the nearest convenient window. Whee-ha!

Ashes of Honor.
October Daye, book six. Urban fantasy/fairy tale noir, modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: outlines done, prepping to summarize before starting.

Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues.
Coyote Girls, book one. Young adult horror/supernatural romance. Modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: first and second drafts are done, final edits are being processed, and the agent is getting her first chance at checking out the book as a whole. Which means I probably need to do the series outline. Bah.

Upon A Star.
Young adult comedy/romance. Drama kids are awesome. So is amnesia. So are the adventures of Babylon Archer. Modern setting, first-person protagonist. Status: pending rewrites.

Deathless.
Dead Girl Diaries, book one. Modern urban fantasy/supernatural romance, first-person protagonist, two books per narrator. (First two are Deathless and Breathless, for Grace.) Status: poking in that vague and chipper 'I'll be writing you soon' fashion.

The Nativity of Chance.
High modern fantasy ranging across the country, through the wonderful lands of Oz, and through a lot of explosions. Pythagorean philosophy meets the works of L. Frank Baum, alchemy meets modern technology, and a pair of cuckoos meet their destiny. Status: researching.

There are lots of other books floating around here -- some finished and slated to be worked on further, others pending getting started -- but these are the ones you're likely to hear the most about, at least currently. I'll probably update this list from time to time, as things move from 'project' to 'print', and new things take their places on the workshop floor.
Tags: ashes of honor, current projects, deadline, deathless, discount armageddon, incryptid, late eclipses, lycanthropy, nativity of chance, one salt sea, upon a star
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Kind of OT, but nice music choice!
I love that musical.