I feel fortunate that I am able to make good news posts these days. In the past few years, I have generally left bad news alone and otherwise posted nothing. I think we can all agree that that is NO WAY to run a website! Not when reader engagement is all about having things to say. So with that in mind, I have some very positive news. After nearly eight years of tinkering, my story Transverse is finally nearing completion!
I’ve been jazzed about this since I finished Part II of this three-act play a few short months ago. And as of the writing of this post, I am over 49,000 words in and just a few chapters shy of completion. While I am tempted to issue some well-deserved thanks yous and “I couldn’t have possibly done this without the support of” statements, it’s customary to leave that until the end. But trust me, those who helped out along the way know who they are and WILL be getting their mentions.
Transverse began several years ago, as I was plotting the story for my first true hard SF novel, The Cronian Incident. From the beginning, I wanted to write a story that would be part of a series, and I knew that it would begin in the Solar System. But I always hoped to expand it into the interstellar realm at some point. It was just the next logical step, really. I also wanted to get into some truly deep Fermi Paradox stuff eventually (i.e., Aliens!).
Transverse is also important as far as the whole series is concerned because it serves as the standalone-bridge novel that connects my first trilogy – The Formist Series – to subsequent trilogies. The next one will either be called the Seedling Series or the Dysonist Series, haven’t decided yet. But I promise to keep you posted. In the meantime, here’s some AI art that helps capture the spirit of my soon-to-be-finished novel!
Stories by Williams 