Rooms

Books in progress

In the drawer

Four manuscripts, none of them finished, none of them named here. Titles change, and a book announced too early stops being written and starts being defended. So this is what they are and how far along they are, and nothing that belongs to the reader who eventually gets to them.

4 manuscripts

  1. Manuscript 01

    Novel With a friend

    Science fiction, set in a world where the mind is networked and memory is no longer a private thing. It asks who a person still is once both of those are true.

    Drafting, and the one I keep going back to

  2. Manuscript 02

    Novel With my sons

    A near-future war story. Underneath the scale of it, the subject is duty, guilt, and what people end up owing each other.

    Drafting

  3. Manuscript 03

    Novella

    A retelling of a classic of world literature.

    In draft

  4. Manuscript 04

    Novel

    Science fiction, set generations after the collapse of the world we know, among people who have made a life somewhere it was never meant to be lived. The subject is the drift: what centuries in an unfamiliar place do to a society, and to what it ends up calling normal.

    In draft

When one of these is finished it will get its name back, and this room will change shape to suit it.