Steel Beneath the Skin by Niall Teasdale

Currently there are no ice weasels, and even if I wind up including some they won’t be prominent enough to merit an inclusion in the title. “Whatever, tell me what this book is gonna be about! You were fucking with us about the ice weasels, right?” The whole crew is in this one so far, except Amber, but I expect she’ll turn up before it’s all over. “Are we gonna see Taylor again this time?” And I love working with her! She’s the best. As far as Tess: God I hope so! She was down with narrating the audio for Life in Shadows, so I’m guessing she’ll be down with this, too. “Okay but will there be an audio book and will Tess Irondale be back?”Īlmost certainly but no guarantees on the audiobook, since Audible seems pretty happy with me so far. But I’ll definitely post a good chunk of it as a sampler (probably the first chapter) once I’ve had a few people read the completed rough draft. Experience has shown that giving people a projected date only makes me into a liar. That said: I’ll write to where the story takes me, and if that includes a 30,000-word expansion of fireball-spitting mecha-penguins, I’ll do it.Īll I’m gonna say is that my goal is to publish this year and it’ll be out as soon as it’s done. The Indie market has changed a lot since I started, and I’ve done a poor job of keeping up with it. Some of that is the simple economics of being a mostly-indie writer. Well, I’m hoping for more like between 120k-150k, but the truth is I need to learn to write slightly shorter books so I can publish more often. “HALF?!” you say? “Does that mean you want it to be only 120k? Why would you do that to us?”

By those standards, I’m arguably around 1/3rd of the way through it…but I really, truly hope to God that it’s more like half. To put it into perspective, Natural Consequences is around 180,000 words and Dead Man’s Debt is a little over 170k. The rough draft is currently at 60,000 words. I figured it’s time for a blog update and I’m a little too engrossed in writing GI3 to go for one of my more ambitious blog ideas, so here you go! A few may have been overlooked or fallen victim to a spam filter. This is the Tentative, As-It-Stands, None-of-This-Is-Set-In-Stone, I Will Turn This Car Around If You Kids Don’t Behave Update for Good Intentions III: Holy Shit Is That an Ice Weasel?

Steel Beneath the Skin by Niall Teasdale