What’s the next book percolating in your head?

​I’ve always got ideas percolating, and it’s a crapshoot on whether anything will actually get words put to it or not. Not just books, either. Stories in general. A lot of short stories get started and cast aside. That said, here are some of the ideas currently percolating.

Aside from my current novel project, Subscription Life, of course.

A short story about how laugh tracks were largely recorded 60-70+ years ago and we are constantly hearing the laughter of people long dead.

A short story or novelette about a blood casino, where one wagers blood rather than money.

I’ve been wanting for years to write a “Westarctican novel” centered around the micronation Westarctica that I’ve been involved with for almost 10 years now. I wanted to do a fantasy/magic/conservation kind of thing involving global warming, but now I’m reconsidering doing something fantasy-Bridgerton-esque. Social romance fantasy, but I don’t know if that idea will also end up petering out. It’s not one I’d pursue anytime soon, anyway.

I still want to get back to the magic item novel I was working on. But it needs a serious retooling in general.

Short stuff this week, but those are some of the ideas going on in there right now.