book news – Jessie Kwak

Hello! It is I, someone who maybe can write words.

Post published:June 1, 2018

Last month, I typed "the end" on the next Durga System novel.(Novel! Full length!)I stood up, stretched, and thought, "Just a light polish and we'll be good to go!"Then I gave the manuscript to my husband and it came back looking like the snippet in the photo above.*headdesk*Anyway, all that to say that this is a short (and late) email because I'm in revision prison for another few days. But rest assured, a new Durga System story is on it's way — and it's gonna be good! For your To-Be-Read list The one thing I have been doing lately (besides screaming…

The anti-Nano: Bikes In Space novel revisions

Post published:November 12, 2015

While other writers are hoping to add 50,000 words to their manuscripts this month, I'm on the mission to delete 10,000 from mine. Yes, I'm revising. I'm currently hard at work making sense of the first draft of my Bikes in Space novel for Elly Blue and Microcosm Press, which will be published in spring 2017. It's based on the short story I wrote for Elly's second Bikes in Space anthology, although the world of the novel has certainly grown and shifted from what I first imagined in that story. (Want to read that story for free? Head here.) Revisions are tough, but it's one of…