The Whitechapel Project

Just a quick note on the scheduling of Whitechapel, and how I’m going to fuck it up right out of the gate.

Currently I’m planning to post something at least once a week — one week will be an episode of Whitechapel, then when the voting closes the following week I’ll do a set of author’s notes on the previous episode, as well as some thoughts on the voting. It’ll be kind of a post-mortem of the episode and the week’s voting wrapped into one entry. Then the following week will be the next episode, and back and forth like that until the novella’s done.

However, next week I’ll be at GenCon just when the voting wraps up, and I won’t be getting back until the following Monday. Then I’ll have to catch up on work, which will be crazy. So, I’m going to do the author’s notes around August 19th, and the second episode will be up August 26th. I’m hoping that once I get Whitechapel‘s schedule going at a steady pace that I’ll be able to sneak some other fiction in once in a while as well — I have a couple more Mosaic stories nearly ready to go, an Agent Patriot story to finish up (from four fucking years ago) and some initial ideas for the first few parts of a Katrina Night serial.

But that’s in the future. For now, it’s all about getting over this GenCon hump.

P.S., 40 votes already on episode one! Kick ass!

First, a quick Whitechapel update. Episode 1 is written, and I have some final revisions in mind before I record it. I still have to work a little on my reading speed (which is why I gave myself more time — I’m anticipating quite a number of takes the first time through), but overall things are looking good for the August 5th release.

I did want to take a moment to point out that the Whitechapel Project site is, in fact, more than just the Whitechapel novella (although I anticipate it will likely be the majority of the site’s focus — hence the name). I had been considering a blog for my fiction for quite some time, but it wasn’t until Whitechapel that I had a project big enough to warrant the initial start-up work¹. But I always expected that other fiction would cluster around this site — in fact, if you check out the “About the Project” page, I’ve already got a couple of other projects in mind.

What I didn’t expect is that I would start getting more ideas right away.

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