Merry Christmas! (And a bit about the next book)

[image error]The observant among you will note that this is the first post since my annual All Saints’ Day pictures on 1 November.  There is a reason for this.  I have been writing.  I know I said that The Repulse Chronicles, Book Two: Invasion would be published this year, but I’m afraid that won’t happen because 2018 has been quite hectic.  The good news is that today I’m within an ace of finishing the first draft of Invasion, so with a little luck it might be in publishable shape in less than three months (there is a long, long way to go from first draft to final product).  Hopefully, completing the first draft will allow me to be a little less tardy with this blog, and in any case I will keep detailing the finishing process here.

In the meantime, I would like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  I hope you and the people you care about are healthy, safe and secure.  I will leave you with a few pictures from our Polish Wigilia this evening.  We were fortunate enough to be able to exchange presents.  My eldest daughter gave me a painted piece of wood as a gift, decorated with Tempora mutantur et nos mutamurin in illis, which means “Times change, and we change with them.” This phrase seems to sum up 2018 quite perfectly.  I’m so lucky to have kids so much smarter than I was at that age