Rebels have kept a steady meeting pace since this fall, via Zoom, discussing our work and talking about publishing, with everyone moving their individual efforts forward.
Chris’ new novel Zero Island comes out this month, and he has been working through all the preparations for that. Congratulations to Chris. He is discussing arrangements for sequels with his publisher. He is also co-writing a novel with one of his publisher’s other writers.
Dave continues work on his novel about a black youth in the south who comes to Philadelphia in his adulthood to become a charismatic and controversial religious figure. Rebels enthusiastically critiqued his revised opening chapter for the book.
Martha has moved to querying stage of her Florida-based novel, A Killing Tide, to which she is also mapping out a sequel.
Jackie has been working on short stories. She will submit two of them for critique to the group this month.
Russ has excerpted and adapted a chapter of his Native American novel for publication in the fall issue the Bucks County literary journal Neshaminy. He has embarked on a long-term and major revision of the full manuscript of that novel. Meanwhile, he continues to query agents and publishers on several other of this completed novel manuscripts.
Finally, since the sad and untimely loss of our friend and fellow Rebel writer, John Wirebach, last fall, the group has discussed ways to pay tribute to John and his writing –– in part through preserving and promoting the projects he was working on. With that in mind, Rebels are reviewing two of John’s novel manuscripts. More to come on this!
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