I had a wonderful time at the Worldcon — but I came home to 5 days of email, some of which was compli­cated to sort out, and a revi­sion which had to go back to DAW imme­di­ately (Battle), and a request for a proposal for a book that I had really only barely started (Cast in Sorrow) and a book which is going to be late because I have once again started from Chapter One (Touch)(I have never nuked a book twice before. Usually throwing out an entire book and started from Chapter One is enough. But Touch has been inter­esting. It will be the shortest book in its publi­ca­tion year, when published — but the number of words I’ve written to get to that shortest book will make it longer than even the longest … Continue reading →