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July 07, 2008
What has Rick Dakan Been Up To?
Well, I thought I'd jump in here and let people know what's going on with all the various projects that I've got, well, going on.I've been busy (is that why blogging has been light?) and there's some cool stuff coming down the pike, headed right for your brain.
In order of how long I've been working on them, we've got what's looking like it will be my next novel to come out. It's called The Cthulhu Cult, as I've mentioned before, and it's a Lovecraft inspired novel as the name suggests. But it's not quite what you might think. It's definitely a kind of horror story, but it's not a Lovecraft pastiche. I'm still perfecting my one-sentence description, but the gist is: After leaving town under a cloud of controversy, Shelby Tyree returns to Sarasota with a mysterious woman at his side and begins recruiting followers to a new church based on his obsession with the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. It's 97% done, just waiting for my publisher to give it one last go over and then I'll do a round of tweaks and it should be ready to go. Hopefully it'll be out by the end of the year.
Then there's the much discussed non-fiction book, Stealing Your Own Identity, which I've been working on with Private Investigator Steven Rambam. It incorporates details of the contest we had last year where I tried to hide from him and he came hunting and gives a pretty compelling overview of the sorry, scary state of privacy in this modern world of ours. Steven and I will be at Last HOPE next week and will be talking about the book during the keynote at 5pm Saturday night. Plus I'll be around the con the whole weekend, so come say hi (and buy a book or t-shirt!).
And then there's Geek Mafia 3 (not the final title). I'm blitzing through the first draft and am on track to have it done by the end of this month. There will be plenty of revising and editing between then and when it comes out next year, I'm really pleased with how the book's developing. It's the most complicated of the novels yet, and it incorporates a lot more hacker stuff than the first two books, plus new characters and plenty of twists and turns. Yummy.
Speaking of Geek Mafia, I should have some cool news about an audio project that's due to launch in the next month or so, maybe even sooner, so keep a look out for that! All good stuff, yeah?
So that's what's up with me lately. August 19th I'm setting sail for Germany and will be spending three months in Berlin doing research for a new series of novels and working on finishing up another project. So hey, anyone in Germany, drop me a line and will have beer or three.
Posted by rdakan at July 7, 2008 07:22 PM