This is the final part of the summary of the events of The Sun Sword: Skir­mish Summary 03.b. There are — as I think Michael pointed out in the previous thread — events that I didn’t mention, in part because it would add enor­mously to the length of the summary, and if I hit 60k words, it pushes the meaning of the word “summary”. It prob­ably wouldn’t surprise anyone, but it also wouldn’t be finished until next month. I think the summary contains the back­story neces­sary to under­stand what’s happening now in Skir­mish, but if there are points that are confusing, this is the post to ask ques­tions in. I will try to answer them as they come up. I also want to add some­thing here. I did have a spoiler thread for … Continue reading →

I am hip-deep in revi­sions — which is better than the chin-deep I was a week ago. When I am writing, and writing is going (rela­tively) well, I tend to be on-line more; I’ll tweet or I’ll post. When revi­sions are prob­lem­atic, they eat my brain, and I tend to disap­pear. I’m sorry =/. But mail arrived from DAW which I wanted to share here: the final version of the Skir­mish cover. The novel is slated for January 2012 release in hard­cover, and I will – when revi­sions on Peril are done – begin work on a ‘story so far’, some­thing I haven’t done before. I’ll post that some­where on the site as the date approaches. Without further comment:  (Actu­ally, there is further comment, sadly. I can’t adjust the image in Word­Press at the moment, so the … Continue reading →