I wanted to thank the people who’ve taken the time to visit and comment here in the last couple of weeks. I have had one younger child birthday party, one twen­tieth wedding anniver­sary gath­ering (mine), and older child exams (which, to be fair, are mostly my long-suffering husband’s task), so I’ve been absent from almost anything but writing.

I have, however, been writing.

I’m halfway through Cast in Chaos. A small change seems to have been made to the cover of Cast in Silence on Amazon​.com.

I sent the entire manu­script for City of Night to my editor at DAW about five minutes ago. I tried to send it six minutes ago, and real­ized that it’s very helpful to actu­ally attach the file.

I know I said I was split­ting the book, so in theory, the first half was finished. But because I could split the book, I could add an epilogue. And a few neces­sary Duster scenes. And a couple of other scenes which, on reread, seemed neces­sary as well. I ended up adding about fifteen thou­sand words.

Now, I’m starting House Name, and it seems to be missing some­thing that could qualify as Chapter One. It has many chap­ters, although it’s not actu­ally finished yet, but the chap­ters that currently exist in the posi­tion of Chapter One are actu­ally good middle-of-book chap­ters and bad Chapter Ones.

My record of pages written before finding the correct Chapter One is about two hundred, on the other hand.