Richard Freeborn

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More on 2025

January 27, 2025 /

In many ways this post is a follow on from last week which helped me put some concrete ideas around 2025 writing goals.

When I first considered my 2025 goals one of the thoughts was to publish a novella each month of the year. The challenge with that is a novella can often stretch into a full length novel. I know I want to write at least one novel this year so that made me rethink and lower my sights a little.

After a lot of thought, I decided a target of eight publications in 2025 was reasonable and they would be a combination of novels and novellas.

Last weeks discovery of those languishing short stories rather upended those thoughts. If I have enough material for four collections, or even eight, I could reach my 2025 publishing goals without writing a word.

Not exactly what I had in mind.

So after a lot of thought, I went back to the twelve publications for 2025. That’s the original eight novels or novellas plus the four collections. I also plan to run a kickstarter on one of those novels. For the collections, I have covers, sales copy, and introductions for the first two, plus content for the third. I am still planning on the collections coming out quarterly.

The goal is to finish the setup, editing, and production of the first collection this week and have the eBooks available by the end of January.

A Quick Update

March 4, 2024 /

For those of you who supported the Thrill Ride kickstarter, a big thank you from me, and implied from everyone else with stories in this year’s issues. The kickstarter funded, so expect to see the first issue – Sisters in Arms – within the next few weeks. This issue includes my story A Cousin’s Outing.

It’s been a while since I submitted anything to the top science fiction magazines, but I have stories under consideration at Asimov’s and Analog. Unfortunately at the moment Fantasy and Science Fiction isn’t accepting submissions, but when they open again, there will be several stories in the queue for them.

Elsewhere, I’m making good progress on the third Jacob and Miriam story, and that’s on track for publication at some time in the second quarter of 2024. More news on that closer to the publication date.

Harvest Time

August 26, 2022 /

Two years ago, I grew a pair of habanero pepper plants as an experiment to see what happened. To say it was a success would be an understatement. I still have three quart storage bags in my freezer. After all, there’s only so much marinade and pepper jelly you can make and give away at any one time.

Since then, my nephew has caught the agricultural bug, and he has much more space for his crops. This year we’ve been getting regularly deliveries of corn, okra, and several varieties of hot peppers including a wicked item called the ghost chili.

On the Scoville Heat Unit rating jalapenos are 2,500 to 8,000, habaneros about 100,000 and the ghost chili about a million! Even with an unbroken skin on the pepper, they’re the peppers you handle with gloves – or a full bio-hazard suit. My sister-in-law claims to like her pepper jelly hot, but I suspect these may be too much for her, We’ll see.

On a total change of subject, the current edition of Asimov’s has the first part of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s new Diving novel – The Court Martial of the Renegat Renegades. Everything in the house stopped while I binge read that first installment, and now I have to wait until the November/December issue of Asimov’s for the next part. If you’ve read any of Kris’s Diving series, especially The Renegat, you’ll want to grab this, both in Asimov’s, and when the actual book becomes available. I know I will

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