First, the friction.

The wavering faith.

I've been in debate and struggle this week deciding on my next project. I have been working on Book 3 of my Identity Crisis superheroes-for-grown-ups series for a while now and finally finished the first section of the novel. That's about 200 pages and maybe 40% of the way into the book. The story stars familiar characters from the series fighting in World War II. It's cool, exciting, and fun. 

And it's just about DOA right now...

The trouble is that superhero books don't exactly sell. It's a niche genre. The sub-flavors of cape books that DO sell right now are mostly harem soft porn with superpowers. (And I honestly don't know how that works out--not my cup of tea.) 

So now I face a big problem: keep writing hundreds more pages on a series that currently, very few people are reading? Or stop where I am and switch gears to one of the literally DOZENS of other, more mainstream SF/F books I have in mind. 

Right now, the latter sounds like a wiser decision.

Even more depressing, I have ANOTHER superhero book that's about 200 pages in and still incomplete. That's 400 pages of fiction not getting finished, not being read, basically going to waste. 

Temporarily, at least. I WILL finish them... eventually. 

If they start to actually sell, I'll snap back to them. And I hope to complete the WWII book and get it out there before 2020 ends anyway, but for now... There doesn't seem to be much of a hurry. No one will notice anyway.

Okay, I don't mean to discount those you reading this right now who HAVE read those books and enjoyed them and told me and the reading public at large that you have. I have many more Spitball and company books in mind. It's just that... well, you get it, right? 

The good news on that is that some new badass sci-fi stuff should be coming your way in the not-too-distant future! My plan right now is to write at least 3 books in the next series all at once and release all at once. And with my wife still in school, my writing time is limited right now. So it'll be a little while, but I'm excited about what's finally getting its turn in the fiction factory!