Now that DEGENERATE is in the can, several things are happening in tandem.

1. Agent queries
   • This is a long process and one that ages authors by 725 years minimum
2. Edit of Degenerate
   • It’s a pretty clean draft, but I’m waffling on whether or not to get an outside edit done anyway because best foot forward and all that
   • Reason I might not do this is because it’s going to be edited post agency no matter what
3. Marketing materials for Degenerate
   • Covers, art, possibly a trailer
   • Much of this is already done, which is good
   • Future publishers will probably want to redo it anyway
4. Putting the “feels” out on the audiobook
   • Again, moot if I go the agency/publisher route, as this will be handled externally
5. And finally, starting on the next book, which is…

D&F (which is what the cool kids call it) is written first-person present tense and follows Anouk, who’s “seen eight times as many suns as most” and aims to find out why. There’s a rich, beautiful, at times horrifying world here. More to come, but if you scroll down my feed, I posted a snippet of an early chapter some time ago.