Writerly updates
Hope you had a great weekend. I did my necessary socializing but also had some time to go through half of the latest book – and then spent Monday trying to mend plot holes that weren't there in the first place! 
Happens when you add characters or write a new related story that changes some details – or simply put meat on those bones. That's what the first pass of edits is for. Hopefully I won't leave any loose threads before passing it to Alpha Reader.
I'm not only adding meat, but also details that will add to variety. Too many women died in childbirth and too many men in battle, so at least now I have two more original ways of killing my characters – bad author, I know! 
But at least my historical research helped me to come up with new solutions I hadn't thought of before.
Hoping to wrap up the first draft before the end of the week when I'll hear from my editors and will have to do that final pass on BoI – Earth – by the way, the cover is the best of the five, but it's not finished yet, so no sneak preview!
What Goodreads does to authors: it boosts your ego! See, I'm #6 most followed… not! Only in my country and only this week. I'm at #46 for the year and not even close to the top50 in the world chart… Meh! I should have stayed on my page!
I got my ITIN application rejected by the IRS for the second time, so next year I'll see if I manage a trip to a foreign IRS office (can't remember if the European section is only in London or also in Paris) and ask them to help me to get through. Not that I need it for this year's income… even if I have a boost in sales in December, I don't think I'll see any money this year! 
Blog stats reached 20.000hits some time yesterday, so I'll have a giveaway to thank you all for following me. So, a copy of the e-book that doesn't seem to go through the Premium Catalog after one month (it's the e-book I uploaded at the workshop) but is already on Kindle – Conall's son (Smashwords edition). Simply leave a comment if you want it – if you want to comment but are not interested in the win, just say so!
