Life has been interesting since the move to South Carolina. I’m settling in fairly well, and only have a few more boxes to unpack. The writing slowed for a bit this month as I tried to unpack, get things done, travel, etc., but now I’m back on track (I think) to where I want to be. Which means Quintus Fox: Stars Over El Dorado is still on track for an October release. I wasn’t too worried about it, but I still want to keep that goal I made about it coming out in October, and for a minute there it looked a little rough.

Over the next six months, it’s looking like I’m going to have something published every month. Wild, right? September has the John Ringo & Gray Reinhart anthology, Troy Rising, set in John’s Live Free or Die universe. Melissa Olthoff and I have a story in that titled “Skeeters.”

Then October has the aforementioned Quintus Fox novel. November will be the Chaos & Consequences anthology, which has a Quintus Fox story in it (how he met and hired Edi Loret). Then December has the next Bronze Legion book by Melissa and I, Vessels Grim and Daring.

January has the next Black Tide Rising anthology by John Ringo & Gary Poole, titled The World We Forge. I didn’t write a story about the Catholic school this time but instead wrote about a mad knight who thinks he’s still filming a not-Lord of the Rings movie and unites the people on the Isle of Mann to fight off a Russian PMC looking for a new base of operations.

February is looking like it’s going to have the mass market paperback for The Monster Hunter Files Vol 2, edited by Larry Correia and myself, released. If everything goes well, then maybe March will see Quintus Fox: Renegades at Tycho.

I can’t promise that one, though, since I still need to finish Monster Hunter Memoirs: Inferno with Larry, and then Melissa and I will be working on the third Bronze Legion novel by then. Still, I can be hopeful.

I also owe Chris Kennedy a few short stories, and Rob Howell as well. That one is actually due soon…hmm…I should get to work on that.

For those of you who hadn’t heard, I will not be at Dragoncon this year. Unfortunately, it’s just too much with the move and everything. I’m only 2 hours from Atlanta now, though, so next year it’ll be a short jaunt on down instead of the 8 hour drive I dealt with last year. I also have no plans to do any conventions for the rest of 2026, either. My next tentatively scheduled convention will be FLSCon in Virginia Beach, VA in 2027. I’m fairly certain I’m going to that one. Then Libertycon, where I’ll be the Master of Ceremonies. I also got confirmation that I’ll be a Spotlighted Guest at Imaginarium in Kentucky in July, and if everything goes right, Dragoncon in 2027. I’ve also been eyeballing P-Con in 2027 but that’s a wait and see thing for the time being.

I’m trying to cut back on conventions because I’ve noticed that they really cut down on production time. My two worst months of writing this year have been June and August (so far). I knew August was going to be bad because of the move (I actually wrote a ton right before the move, which put me ahead of schedule…which I promptly lost because I didn’t write for two weeks after the move) but seeing June, which is when Libertycon usually occurs, be a worse month made me go back and track every month I had a convention, and my word count for those months.

(what, doesn’t everybody keep track of their daily/weekly/monthly/yearly output?)

That’s a pretty long, boring update on things.

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