Words of Redemption

You’ve likely noticed that posting frequency here at Words of Redemption has dipped a bit. Thankfully, that’s by design. However, other than to say that things are quite busy, I won’t enumerate the reasons why until I post my entry for LL Barkat’s 5 Ways Blogging Changed My Life meme. Expect that this weekend.

In the meantime, how about a whirlwind tour of what’s new with me and (mostly with) Sarah?

For starters, Sarah and I are having a baby! It’s our first, due in March next year.¹

We couldn’t be more excited. Sarah and I are amazed at how God has blessed us over the last five-and-a-half years and we can’t wait to meet the newest member of our clan.

What’s more, thanks to the unbelievably strong genes in the Liles family (Sarah’s side), I can give you an idea of what the baby will look like, should we have a girl:

For the record, that’s my niece, but I’m not kidding. I’ve seen the photographic evidence. You wait…

On the other hand, if it’s a boy, I expect that the also-strong Satrom genes will rule the day:

Anyhow, we couldn’t be happier. Please keep Sarah and the baby in your prayers. Both are doing great so far. Me? I’m just trying to be helpful…

Of course, all other news pales in comparison, so if you’re still reading, I thank you.

Sarah and I recently did a photo shoot with a friend who is getting a side business off the ground.

He’s pretty good, no?

One of these days, I’ll post those pics to Flickr and pass the link around. In the meantime, here’s a link to Jacob’s Flickr page, and the set from this shoot.

Okay, now for the least important stuff: writing news.

1. Upcoming work – The Futuristic Motherhood anthology, which includes my story “A Person of No Consequence” is coming this month. I’ll post a teaser to my story and other details soon. In the meantime, you can order the book here. I’m really excited about this anthology and this story, so stay tuned for more info.
2. Out in the wild – I have three stories out making the rounds as we speak. I expect responses any day on a couple, and expect to wait a while on another. I’m also realizing that I can’t seem to settle on a genre, and I honestly don’t plan to any time soon. Between the three stories out and the one currently being printed, I have 1 sci-fi story, 1 literary piece, 1 crime story and 1 speculative story. Perhaps it’s good to focus, and one day I will, but for now I’m just having fun writing anything and everything.²
3. Short works in progress – On the in progress front, I am working on one more short story that I hope to finish this month or next. This will be likely be the final short story I work on in 2008.
4. The next novel – Why? Because NaNoWriMo is just around the corner…

Well, not exactly, but I’ve already started planning, plotting and outlining my next novel. My plan is to use all of September and October to outline the crap out of this thing, and then spend all of November and December, with NaNoWriMo as the jumping off point, to write the first draft.

So far, I’m pretty excited about the novel I’ve got here. Not at all what I expected to do this year, but that’s what’s making it so exciting!

I also plan to blog a daily chronicle of NaNo this year, so expect the once-a-week blogging to turn into once-a-day for the month of November.

You stay classy, internet.

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1. If you follow me on Twitter, you might already know this, so sorry for the repeat [↩]
2. In addition to these four stories, I do have two others, but they shall remain apocryphal and unpublished, hopefully forever [↩]

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