2022.
Voids, starfires and broken dreams, 2022.
I’m not going to go into great detail, but 2022 was only not the worst year of the pandemic for us because all of it was carried forward from 2021. Still dealing with the house crisis and my mom’s passing.
Work wise, I continued to write. My team and I put out eight books this year:
- Admiral’s Oath, the first book in the Dakotan Confederacy trilogy, continuing in the Castle Federation Universe
- Balefire, the dark fantasy novella
- Beyond the Eyes of Mars, book 12 in the Starship’s Mage series
- Huntress, book 5 in the Scattered Stars: Conviction series
- Discretion, book 2 in the Scattered Stars: Evasion series
- Remnant Faction, book 5 in the Peacekeepers of Sol series
- To Stand Defiant, book 2 in the Dakotan Confederacy trilogy
- Icebreaker, a fantasy/sci-fi standalone
We had two big experiments this year. The first was the Kickstarter for Nine Sailed Star, which went decently. We’ll be fulfilling that soonish (the Kickstarter update emails will have more information).
We’ve locked ourselves in to kick-starting books 2 and 3 of Aether Spheres, so I am going to hold off really assessing the experiment overall until the trilogy is done.
The other experiment was Icebreaker, standalone novel with a hybrid fantasy/SF aesthetic. It seems to have hit the spot nicely, given the perpetual demands for a sequel!
We also spent a few weeks in the UK visiting museum ships with Dr. Alexander Clarke of Naval History Live. That was a fascinating and educational trip that sent a few extra plot bunnies loose in my head.
Last but hardly least, I managed to accidentally go viral on Reddit with a photo of myself standing with a stack of all of my books. It’s a bit intimidating to see it all piled up like that!
There are a lot of personal moving pieces for 2023, but we are looking at having some of the big crises finally resolved. A lot of work ahead, which hopefully won’t impede writing too much, but resolutions are handy.
I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday and has a happy new year!
Happy Reading
-Glynn
I think you did a great job this year I was absolutely amazed on everything you wrote I have not yet finished icebreaker on audio I keep on getting distracted. Every one of your books hit it out of the park. The Dakota Federation book was probably your best from my perspective. Of course I’ve always been partial to Castle Federation. I was hoping you were going to use either JD Jackson or Alexander Trefethen. On more audiobooks both of those guys did amazing jobs. Not that I want you to stop using anybody that you’ve already got, your team does a great job selecting talent for the audiobooks. I’m just missing seeing them show up in your works. Particularly in the case of Trefethen. I was unaware of him before changling blood And because of that I’ve now read the last sword mage series and the last paladin books. Two other interesting authors. I also want to say I really enjoyed huntress and eyes of mars and can’t wait for the next mage book or the next Dakota book. I’m also hoping you start doing another side trilogy or similar like you did with onset exile or any other one where you created a whole new everything out of thin air it’s actually amazing where you change the universe before it’s over played. And when you don’t do that you change main characters spectacular.