Ryan M. Patrick

This month flew by. Not much has changed other than on

The Saturn Anomaly and Crush Depth

Still at the Pentagon. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Not much else to say, I’ll probably bug them again at the end of April. Price of doing business with me writing in the genres I write in, I guess. But Crush Depth has a new cover – much better, IMO. As soon as I get clearance to publish it’ll be about 60 days from that date to publication. More to come as soon as I hear back.

The Kuiper Dominion

Got to 38,000 words – not quite my 40,000 word goal, but close enough. I added a chapter to the outline so I’m at 46 rather than 45 and moved a couple more around. It’s in really good shape and I pulled in a ton of elements from Books 1 and 2 that had been forgotten about.

For April, I want to get to 60,000 words – roughly two-thirds done with my current outline. Probably around Chapter 29 or 30 out of 46.

I’m definitely on track to be done sometime in June, then to my beta readers. Targeting a 2027 release.

Short Stories

This is the most interesting one in March. I got invited to participate in two different anthologies! One I already had a story for, the other will be a fresh one that I had to start from scratch (and that I’m already 2,000 words into!). Really excited about this, I’ve been writing shorts for a decade and to this date have only sold one. I did have to put my Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea-influenced short for a Rac Press call on hold (after getting about 500 words into it) but I am well on my way to finishing 4 shorts this year – I may even be able to sell all of them! Hoping to finish the one for the 2nd as-of-yet unannounced anthology in April and then back to my submarine one.

Outlining

Working on my Timeline-inspired Roman novel, not quite done yet. Next up will be the last 2 books in my Dark Galaxy series, then an urban fantasy set in Dayton that I’ve been brainstorming in what little spare time I have.

Critique

No crit this month, but I did get an eARC from an old writing friend and just got a novel from another. More on this in April. Still on track for 12 this year.

Fingers crossed that I’ll hear back from the Pentagon in April on one or both of my novels there! I also have a bunch of half-finished blog posts that I hope to get done this month…