WIP Report: Crossover
Work In Progress (WIP) Reports are quick updates on what I'm working on. They're meant to give you a hint of what's coming down the pipeline, and hopefully pique your interest in reading the finished work.
So what I'm working on right now is Crossover, which is very cleverly named because it's a...crossover featuring John Crane and Jessie Diamond. Jessie has shown up in Crane's stories before, of course. But in this one, Jessie has her own story going on, Crane has his, and they... cross over. Get it? I am so clever sometimes!
It really shouldn't come as a surprise though. Given who Jessie typically works for, and who Crane and Josh are typically going after, it was just a matter of time until their different jobs got tangled up and they found themselves working at cross purposes. Crossover is where it happens.
It's been a fun piece to work on. It's letting me work more on the relationship between Jessie and her sidekick/bodyguard, Niall Beaton. And Jessie and Niall are flying a de Haviland Otter float plane in this one, so that's fun. Any time I can put an airplane on water, I'm happy!
Crossover is currently at about 11,000 words, and it's probably going to be somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 by the time it's done. So "novelette" length. I'm planning to include it in the as yet untitled John Crane omnibus I hope to release later this year.
After this is done, I have a few things in the plotting and design stage. I'll keep you posted.
til next time,
-- MP
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Reading: With a Mind to Kill by Anthony Horowitz. New Bond novel! His Forever and a Day might be my favorite non-Fleming Bond of them all, so I’m excited about this.
Watching: Moon Dog, an adorable short about maybe not always going with your first instinct.
Listening To: Crystal. By 80s synth band New Order, believe it or not.