In the first calendar month of this year, I hoped to have been able to do a lot of work on several eBooks that I hope to be able to self-publish at some point either later this year or further into the future.
However, on January 4, my mother was hospitalized due to a severe medical condition, and, on January 7, my mother underwent approximately three hours and 15 minutes of surgery, in which multiple surgical procedures, including the installation of a hopefully temporary stoma and colostomy bag and a procedure to repair a hernia, were performed. The surgery was mostly successful, and my mother has since been transferred to a medical rehabilitation facility. Although my mother has been recovering well, she was scheduled to undergo a minor surgical procedure at the rehabilitation facility today to fix an issue that was resulting in occasional leakage of her colostomy bag, and I will visit my mother tomorrow, as I’ve done nearly every day since she was initially hospitalized. I am hoping that my mother will be able to come home as soon as Monday.
Due to the need to visit my mother daily while she recovers, and the need to do tasks around my house that my mother would otherwise do, I have been doing little in the way of writing work so far in 2020. However, with my mother continuing to recover, I hope to be able to commit a couple of hours or so of each day on writing-related work, starting in the very near future.
I will also provide an update on my current works in progress:
- I will not be publishing any new works before May 1st of this year, although I hope to self-publish multiple works before the end of 2020.
- I am currently considering ending new works in The Chronicles of Vazkelt series after only a single eBook was published, with a work in progress in that series, Love, Tragedy, and Volleyball, possibly written and published as a stand-alone work not part of any series under the name Love, Tragedy, and Volleyball or a different name.
- Regarding the planned Superhaikus poetry series, I am considering writing one or more collections in that series before Seventy-Two Microseasons. I will likely use a different self-publishing service than PublishDrive to publish poetry collections, due to PublishDrive being an eBook-only self-publishing service and a desire to publish poetry collections in both eBook and paperback formats.
- Regarding the planned Rebuilding Our Republic political non-fiction series, I am considering renaming that series, although I hope to be able to complete the first book in that series sometime in the late spring or early summer of that year. I have done preparation work on a book in the series, tentatively titled Unicameral Congress.
- Regarding the planned historical fiction novel Alt-America, I am in the preliminary stages of determining whether to write a single novel under the name Alt-America or a two-part series of novels, with the series title of Alt-America.
I am also in the very preliminary stages of preparation work regarding a pair of upcoming fiction series, although I am not currently classifying either of these series as works in progress:
- I am currently in the very preliminary stages of preparation work regarding a political fantasy series, with a series name yet to be determined.
- I am currently in the very preliminary stages of preparation work regarding a science fiction series, with a series name yet to be determined.
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