Most readers would be surprised at how often writers abandon books, even completed ones. Follow me as we take a journey through my head-canon of the universes that I’ve either almost abandoned or am not yet ready to complete.
Over the years writing TAU CETI, I’ve had a short playlist of songs that I felt either captured a theme of the story or the mood of a particular scene.
TAU CETI has had two different prologues over the course of its existence. This is the first prologue, Dr. Velasco’s very vague origin story. It is quite short.
Meet the crew of the experimental ship Santa Maria. It’s not a happy crew, but that’s OK, they may all die soon anyway…
TAU CETI is a big, complex story with a large cast of characters. This non-exhaustive list gives all of the important characters.
From an early age, I dreamt I’d live on a sailboat, I dreamt I’d be an author, I dreamt I’d go to Africa. I dreamt I’d have adventures.
With thirty-eight chapters and a prologue, TAU CETI is an epic tale, with this final draft starting at 159,000 words.
TAU CETI has had two different prologues over the course of its existence. Neither are in the final edit of the book. This is the second prologue, told from Michelle’s perspective, a flash forward from very near the end of the story.
My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2014. As much as she had become a fan of my writing, I knew there was a good chance that by the time I actually finished and published TAU CETI, it would be too late for her to appreciate or understand.
There’s four different ideas that I’ve picked up in writing courses, in interactions with other writers, and on the advice of a literary agent.
