What, you ask, is an interquel? I made it up, for a segment that isn’t exactly a story but fits between earlier and later books. I was trying to use this as the end of a short story, where it did not fit. The location in “Story-timeline” is right, but it’s not a good ending Read More…
Category: Snippet
Universes Interlude
“It doesn’t really look like you.” Teague, a tall, lanky fellow with yellowish brown-freckled skin and dubious colored eyes, is holding the cover art for the latest Vatta book. “Your official visa image doesn’t look much like you,” Ky says. She looks tired. “They got the bone structure right,” Rafe says. “It’s just the color–” Read More…
A Dwarf, A Gnome, a Humod, a Thief…
and a paladin…walk into a bar. Wait, I hear you say. This is supposed to be an all-SF blog site. No fluffy unicorns (I never wrote a fluffy unicorn) and no fantasy stuff. Yeah, but, this is Universes, where different things meet that can’t usually, and tonight (it’s pouring rain and I can’t sleep, largely Read More…
Step One + Snippet
Saturday, April 2, I finished the structural parts of the revisions. Now I’m going over the other comments. Stuff has been taken out. Stuff taken out was partly at the request of Editor and partly my initiative, as the changes in structure up to that point made the stuff taken out less organic to the Read More…