A sequel

I'm currently working on a sequel to one of my novels. I know many readers have been wanting a sequel to Slave to the Stars, since a lot of you want to know what happens to Tilmath as she continues to grow up. Well, that's not the sequel I'm working on. Sorry. I do have some ideas for it, but they're just not quite ready yet.

For this sequel, I'm going back in time a bit. Many people have asked for a sequel to A Problem in Translation, and that is the sequel that I'm currently working on. It's been a long time since I've visited the world of Cap. Takahashi and his crew, but I'm really excited to be working on this one.

This is the first time that I've ever tried to write a sequel to one of my novels, so it's a different experience. Most of the characters are already there, so I don't have to worry about doing much to create them, although I of course have to make sure that I inject enough material about them for readers that might not have read the first novel, but at the same time, not introduce so much material that I make it boring for the readers who have read the first book. It's interesting trying to find that balance. And of course, rereading the first novel, I realized how much I had actually forgotten over all these years.

This novel will start out with now Ambassador Takahashi on the Lemec homeworld. The Lemec have received a signal from a species that they have no knowledge of, and this of course bothers these creatures that like to control everything. Still not sure if he even likes the hard to understand aliens, Takahashi realizes that they want him to make first contact with these new aliens, which is hard for him to understand considering just how bad first contact between him and the Lemec went.

Working on this novel is fun in different ways than some of my other work. Taking my characters to new worlds gives me a chance to do some fun math. Math? you might be saying. In writing? Well, yes. Science fiction has to get the science right, so in the first book when you heard one of the characters spouting of statistics about a new planet, those were all legitimate. I went through and did all of the math to make sure that the details were correct. I've never liked it when science fiction writers just try to fake their way through the science...that's not what this field is about.

So, Takahashi will be heading off to visit these new aliens, and he will find himself meeting more than just the aliens that sent the signals. Will he make the same mistakes he made last time? Or will he find new mistakes to make? And unfortunately for him, he won't be going alone...

I don't know how long it will take me to write this novel, but I'm very excited about it, so hopefully the process will be quick. My family is still struggling, and we will most likely be homeless at the beginning of the year, but maybe living in the car will give me the motivation to write this novel quickly. We shall see.

If you haven't read the first novel, please feel free to check it out at https://books2read.com/b/b6a1xx. I'm even lowering the e-book price to $2 for a couple of weeks.