In the Works

What’s in the works? A couple of things in The Drop universe. The fourth season is still in progress and going quite nicely, thank you. I like the story so far and as always, the characters surprise me. Spoiler alert: I was going to have ten players quit on the first day and follow the remaining two for the rest of the book. To be clear, that’s not what happened once I actually started writing the story. It makes for an interesting and focused narrative to drill down to two characters, but as I found, it leaves out possibilities I hadn’t considered until I found myself needing more characters to make things happen. Anyway, that’s one thing in the works. The other, that I haven’t started yet, is the audiobook for Season Three. I just haven’t had time to get it going yet and quite honestly, I’m a little hesitant even though it needs to be done. The reason is my experience when I worked on the audio version of First Step, which as you might recall, I abandoned because the AI voice couldn’t get the name of some characters correct, no matter how hard I tried. The Drop definitely contains characters with non-English names and I’m either going to have to struggle a lot with the AI or I’m going to have to change the eBook (off which the audiobook is based) to utilize easier-to-pronounce names. Maybe I’ll start on that over the upcoming long weekend.