Sometimes I Write About What I'm Writing

Things I'm working on:

Novel - THE BOX (172 pages in)    

Difficult to describe but I tossed a lot of stuff in here, mostly about ex-wives and ex-lovers and ex-lives. Was once titled FOUR STUDIES OF LOVE.

Novel - THE OMEGA PROJECT: A BISHOP FORD NOVEL (40 pages in)

This is the first mystery novel in a planned series featuring my journalist-turned-detective Bishop Ford.  Each title will do that thing that mystery/thriller series do with similar titles all set like this...The FILL IN THE BLANK Project: A Bishop Ford Novel. This first one is about a serial killer who thinks she's a werewolf.

Novel - GREEN FATHER (47 pages in)

I like folk horror. I've written several short stories in this genre but never a book. This one sees David Eversole move back to his hometown in Eastern Kentucky from the central part of the state when his grandmother dies. He finds she had been part of a cult based deep in the hills of Caldwell, Kentucky.

Prose Poetry Collection - I MISS THE RAINS DOWN IN AFRICA (14 pages in)

A collection of prose poems, which will be my fourth collection of poetry once finished. If I finish this one finished this year, it will be the second completed in that time. Alien Buddha Press released my third, Shark Life, earlier this year.

I've been fairly prolific, relatively speaking, since my first book, The Same Terrible Storm, came out in 2012. By about this time next year I'll have had fifteen books published since Storm appeared. But the above breakdown of my current projects should explain why. 

I've never been able to sit down and start a book and write only on that manuscript until the thing is done. I've just not been able to take that road. I will say, though, that having three novels going at the same time is pretty new. Usually I've worked on a novel, a story collection, and a poetry collection simultaneously. But it's all for the same reason: I get bored and burned out writing on the same story for too long without having another to jump to when that happens. Somewhere inside I'm missing that mechanism.

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