Or, as Agent says, “it’s out of the starting blocks.” The “it” and the “train” are the first Horngard book, start of a new LONG story in Paksworld. I know many of you wanted the third Vatta’s Peace book, but several attempts to write that one failed. It would not jell. And for a longer Read More…
Category: Paksworld stuff
Character Names
I ran into another character name situation a couple of days ago…a story in progress kept hanging up on the protagonist’s surname. None of my early readers had seemed troubled by the one I was using, but I kept feeling that niggling sort of feeling when you’ve left the door of the fridge ajar, and Read More…
Left Behind: Doomed?
No, this isn’t about a particular belief of a particular group of Christians. It’s about stories. Stories that start with someone left behind–oversleeping and missing the boat, the train, the shopping trip, perhaps. Shipwrecked on an island. Falling out of an airplane into a dense forest. Or missed by the rescue vessel when others Read More…
Again, And Again, And Again
….creeps in this petty pace from day to day…(or something like that.) No, Horngard I has not yet fledged completely and was handed back to the nest by the helpful Agent who pointed out that just flapping wings wasn’t flying, and the primaries were only half as long as they should be. Metaphorically speaking. Horngard Read More…
Holiday Period
Whatever holidays you celebrate in this season….or firmly avoid, in this season…I wish you all as pleasant a passage from December to the New Year as possible. We will be having a quiet holiday season, since we can’t drive at night and thus can’t go to the Sing-Along Messiah, or any performances, or attend the Read More…
Over in Paksworld
There are presently three excerpts of a “side story” from way back–re-created in the past month, because I lost the original of it. Kieri Phelan’s first independent command with his little contingent of one cohort…and since the rest of the army he’s with is either the Tsaian Royal Guard or feudal levies from Tsaian nobles, Read More…
7 Days of Progress
More like 6 1/2 days if my finger-counting’s right. It’s noon on Saturday, July 2. Crossed the 35,000 frontier this morning. May or may not get to 36,000 by tonight. Yesterday didn’t make a lot of movement in wordage (some in the “notes”) because I drove into the city, bought some stuff at Dover, went Read More…
And Over in Paksenarrion’s Editions…Plus News
I found out only this afternoon that the omnibus edition of THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION is out of stock, and being retired (after 25 very successful years in print!!) so that the debut of the 30th anniversary of edition of Sheepfarmer’s Daughter (to be followed at intervals by Divided Allegiance and Oath of Gold) can Read More…