Well, plans have changed.
About a year ago, I had the idea of printing up a limited number of copies of my novella-length fairy tale, The Jewel Bride. I was thinking of something chapbook-like, on fancy paper.
But like so many projects, what sounded like a totally manageable idea turned out to be more complicated and time-consuming than I’d expected, especially with a full-time job, and, you know, life things.
And then when the pandemic happened, I decided I need to stop and be more realistic about what I could get done.
So in the spring of 2020, working from home, with so much of the world shut down around us, I committed to finish revising a novel I had set aside after 2019’s National Novel Writing Month.
And good news! That novel is almost ready to send out now, and its working title is How Does It Feel to Feel.
The book is set in Vancouver in late 1986, but the name comes from a noisy and psychedelic-tinged song by The Creation, a British band from the mid-’60s. (I know there were at least some Vancouverites listening to the Creation at that time — but more about that later.)
I’ll be posting more about Vancouver from that period, and a bit more about the story itself, right here.
Stay tuned!
