At least once a year (maybe once every two years), I get an idea for a novel and bang out the first 20 or 50 or 100 pages before I’m forced to set it aside to return to whatever it was I’d been writing before inspiration struck. Over time I do get back to these books—I started Body Surfing around 2000 or 2001, but didn’t actually write it until about three years ago. Right now my working life for the foreseeable future is completely dominated by The Gate of Orpheus, the trilogy I’m co-writing with Tim Kring (look to this site for updates about book 1, Shift, in the near future), but, in an effort to keep my literary (and not-so-literary) projects alive and out there in the world, I’ve decided to create a section on this site called First Chapters of Future Novels. To kick things off, I’m posting the beginning of an historical novel called Caretaker, the idea for which was actually thrown to me by my agent over lunch six or seven years ago. You can find it under the exclusives section, or just follow the link here.
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