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...

one of the biggest problems with working in retail is christmas. yeah, bah humbug and all that, but it doesn't half interfere with the pattern of creative work i've managed to build in to my day during the rest of the year.

usually i can count on being able to get a few hundred words down during my lunch break. not much, i know, but over the course of two weeks (with an added afternoon plugged in at the library) that can give me a good 4000 words, if i'm lucky. and those numbers start...

Been playing with Photoshop again, I'm afraid. The cover for ED2 won't draw itself, after all.

Now, I've been thinking a bit about this: the book is called Midwinter Fury, as part of the action happens on a world called Midwinter. So my first thought was to carry over the "sunburst" motif from ED1's cover; my second was to attempt to find something to illustrate the contents. My third was to alter the text colour to match the general ice/cold theming.

Two...

Vol.2 of the Empire Dance is proceeding apace - but I've had to make the decision (not easy) that after this I will need to put the project on the back-burner for a while so that the Curse does not suffer. Getting my head out of space-opera mode and back into epic fantasyland will be a bit of a wrench.

But, on the plus side, I'm rather happy with the way ED has been developing, both in my head and on (virtual) paper. When I first resurrected the idea and decided to break it into manageable,...

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