During Bill’s visit a couple of weeks ago, I learned some things about illustrating comics that led me to start rewriting the Legend of Khi-Mara comic scripts that I had been working on. This week I finished the rewrites and concluded The Chronicle of Kwon-Lo Chen. With that, the first twelve issues are written.

When I finished that, I started doing one more pass through Solfleet: The Call of Duty to prepare it for a new publisher. That publisher has certain specific manuscript requirements that the previous one didn’t have, so I have to make a number of minor changes and fixes, none of which will alter the actual story. Hopefully this pass will only take a couple of weeks and I can return to my final writing pass on Star Trek Soldiers of Pawns: War and Peace sometime in mid-May and finish that before the fall. Once that is finished, all my novel-writing energy will be poured into Solfleet: Beyond the Call. I intend to finish that before the calendar flips to 2012.

I have also, during whatever shorter blocks of writing time I can squeeze in here and there, started making story notes for the Solfleet and Elsewhen comics, and have started developing the Recon 7 comic. Bill continues to develop his Return of the Frontiersmen comic.

I have been extremely busy with the writing lately and have neglected posting updates here. I have decided that this Saturday evening I will being posting weekly updates, rather than continue trying (and failing) to update every time I make significant progress.

Bill Lutz has completed the illustrations for the all new expanded issue #1 of  Star Trek Phase-II: The Illustrated Adventures. He will begin to ink them next week, and then send them off to Rob Barnes for coloring.