Write One, Sub One

I've been writing a series of space opera novelettes featuring the main characters from my 2008 novel, Template, plus Erm Kaslo, hero of A Wizard's Henchman (2017). My original plan was to sell them to magazines as individual stories, and I'd even sold the first, "Stopover at Meech's World," to Amazing Stories. Eventually, I'd fix them up into an episodic novel.

But then I had such a good time with Pete and Nicky Crowther of PS Publishing at WorldCon. They'd previously published four chapbook novellas about my corpulent master criminal of the far future, Luff Imbry, and their current release of the four as a paperback omnibus, Forays of a Fat Man, reminded me how much fun it was to work with them.

So I've put the first four novelettes together as 39,000 words, called it Passengers & Perils, and sent it off to PS. We'll see what happens.
 
Yesterday, I was poking around on my WordStar program, looking for a document I seem to have lost (probably erased unintentionally) when I came across notes for a flash fantasy I jotted down in 2003. It struck me as pretty good, so today I wrote it up and sent it to Flash Fiction Online.
 
I'm camping out at a motel now, in between house sits, but I managed to get another thousand words added to the Baldemar novelette. Now it's time for the bad guys to show up and make trouble. Baldemar doesn't know he has an ace in the hole, but I do.
 
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