revisions

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…