Yep, after nothing for 3 months or so, there's two in one day.

I mentioned that I was doing some dice-rolling; here's a couple of mocked-up covers for the games I'm running/creating/nicking from other sources.


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....or, the size of my TBR pile.

• Peter F Hamilton - Fallen Dragon (bought years back from a clearance on Fargate for 99p, never quite started it)
• Peter V Brett - Painted Man
• Ian R MacLeod - The Light Ages (first edition hardback, 74p, The Works, Doncaster. Perfect condition. You really can't argue with that, can you?)
• David A Durham - Acacia
• GRRM/Dozois (eds) - Songs of the Dying Earth (hardback from The Works)
• Joe Abercrombie - Last Argument of Kings
• Richard Miles - Carthage Must

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Or, rather, a nice few days with good friends, down in the vale of Evesham. The weather's been mostly cack, and i haven't done half as much writing as i really wanted to, but on the other hand i got to see my niece and nephew and - more importantly - Mrs C was calm, relaxed, slept well, and went to meet the young charmers for the first time since heaven knows when.

One creative positive as well: I'm up to 70% completion on the first draft, and i've finally figured out a way to finish...

It's that time again - time for a crop of New Year Resolutions. Somewhat disappointingly, on reviewing last year's selection, I found that I had only satisfied 2 of the 5 - I went to AltFiction (and thoroughly enjoyed myself!) and managed to publish part one of the Empire Dance through Lulu and Amazon (and on Kindle too!). In fact, I also managed to complete the second volume as well, and part 3 is well underway (on 14k and slowly rising).

On the other hand, Malessar's Curse is still...

Remember these?Okay, here's the update:

Empire Dance Vol.1 - finished. MC - still going.
Submissions - still ongoing. Winter Road bounced politely by Beneath Ceaseless Skies...