Hello, my friends and occasional relative! Yes, that is still the title. It remains the pithiest that fits within the format I set myself with The Thief and The Demon. I can’t lie—I will enjoy writing books without The X and The Y as a title convention! But hey, I am feeling mostly better, and …
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Work In Progress Update
Hello friends and the occasional relative. Unbelievably, I am sick again. Kicked in yesterday, and now I have a hot head full of cotton wool, where thoughts sluggishly drift and dissipate. It is a huge pain in my backside, but for today, medicated up to my eyeballs to manage symptoms as best I can, I …
Coffee-Fueled Digressopedia, and Book Update
Hello friends and the occasional relative! I know, weekly update, don’t expect this to be a long-term thing. I’m having a burst of consistent output, which is fabulous, I have a deadline, which is motivating, and I’m writing, which is the whole point. So I’ve written another couple of chapters of The Slaves and The …
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World Belt Update
Hello friends and the occasional relative! (yes, I may use this as a tag line from now on). I have been asked to give you all an update on my progress in the wonderful, if grim, World Belt. The Slaves and The Djinn (a slightly more upbeat title than The Killer and The Dead I …
The Writing Life: The Pudding has been Proofed.
Hello folks, more time has passed than expected once again. Between blog posts I mean. The standard flow of time has otherwise been maintained, at least in my vicinty, as far as I can tell. Observational bias and all that. Anyway, updates. The Long Road to publication continues. Strangely enough my proofreads turned into another …
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The Writing Life: SPFBO 2020 and an update or three.
Good evening, whatever timezone you may be in. Quick updates: Proofing run one is done. I have made some minor corrections based on feedback, and then, jaunting down a word-search rabbit hole, I noticed a thing. I'm fixing the thing, (and it is a small thing) before proofing run two begins. I have finalised the …
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Roderick T. Macdonald 