Titles

So…normally, titles are not a problem for me. Heck, I even title my chapters, and people complement me on the amusing or intriguing chapter names. But I cannot for the life of me come up with a title for this current book. For the last 25 years, I’ve assumed it was going to be called:…

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Making Progress

So, I realized one reason I was having trouble saying what the plot was for Book One was because I had not emphasized the plot of the first book over and above the other threads of the story (plots to be resolved in later books.) I went back and did this, now the book is…

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Family Moments!

Behind me, on the livingroom floor, my mother and my daughter are cutting out a pattern for a shirt they are making for Ping-Ping. Life doesn’t get much more wonderful than this.

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At Long Last…Chapter Twenty Six!

Don’t know why it is that some chapters get done in two days and others take THREE MONTHS! But that is how it goes. Chapter Twenty Six was one of the recalcitrant type. I started it in May, or maybe even April, but I just couldn’t seem to get it to go anywhere. At first,…

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And Publisher’s Weekly…

Back from Goshen, where Orville and I spent a wonderful five days doing Boy Scout stuff and reading The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan. I had a really good time. Orville comes home on Sat. Publishers Weekly, July 11, 2011 «Prospero Regained L. Jagi Lamplighter. Tor, $25.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1931-9 Lamplighter wraps up her…

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Gone Till Wednesday…

Hey Folks, Just a heads-up that I am gone until Wednesday. Orville and I are going to Camp Marriott at Goshen. (For those of you who are unfamiliar with Goshen–it is a huge tracked of land owned by Boy Scouts of America upon which resides somewhere between three and seven summer camps.) We’re going to…

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