Issue 24 Surrender

After a couple of years of writing for six days a week, I finished writing my novel Surrender last Friday. There were times, when working on it, I would have trouble with reentry to this world. I’d be supposed to be cooking or doing the dishes or something, and I’d still be walking around in 2050, mapping out overheated cities with their streets underwater, or trying to guess what an artificial intelligence might sound like if it had a personality wrapped around it.

My usual response, when interrupted out of these thoughts, was “Huh?” It always took me a moment to bounce back the 30 years to land here again.

The next step for Surrender is to send it around to early readers. We need to know if I went too deeply into a scene, didn’t fill in a character enough, or missed a storyline. The only way to do that is to get out of my head and offer the world of the book to some generous people who like to read.