Welp, I just threw the first 20,000 words of SPACE PRINCESS STAR at my test readers. And now I can chillax at Eastercon next Thursday with a clean conscience.
(Whether it gets beyond 20K words depends on how effectively my agent can sell STARTER PACK, to which it is a sequel. Think "the Stainless Steel Rat tries to defraud Star, from Heinlein's 'Glory Road': everything goes sideways at high speed." Also, there is a Skullularity. That is: a Singularity, made entirely from Skulls.)
(Whether it gets beyond 20K words depends on how effectively my agent can sell STARTER PACK, to which it is a sequel. Think "the Stainless Steel Rat tries to defraud Star, from Heinlein's 'Glory Road': everything goes sideways at high speed." Also, there is a Skullularity. That is: a Singularity, made entirely from Skulls.)