Very, very, very tentative cheer….the ship is moving through the harbor. This early, things can go wrong easily; there’s not much momentum, and if the Plot Daemon is right, the Number Two engine is still not contributing. Thin morning fog is just lifting from the water trailing wisps, requiring a sharp lookout to spot the Read More…
Category: Background
The New New Book
The new book is Cold Welcome. The new new book is the book after that, which presently is undergoing some restructuring…since its beginning is now the end of Cold Welcome. I’ve been doing some analytical thinking about it, because it should have a series of reveals, like the opening of a rose, and it would Read More…
Tuesday Toolkit for Writers
Every person has a toolkit, a set of skills (physical, mental, emotional) that they use to navigate their life. When you learn something–anything–it becomes part of that toolkit, and the more tools you have, the more of life’s challenges you can handle with less strain than the person without those skills, that knowledge, that attitude. Read More…
Backing Up a Little
Cold Welcome is not the first book in the Vatta Universe, so the new book has under it the foundation built by Vatta’s War. Yet it needs to be understandable to new readers without their having to buy the first five books. This is not meant to discourage anyone from buying the first five books Read More…