Progress on
The Dragons of Asdanund has been a bit better this month. I wrote 12, 000 words of the first draft, so it now stands at 57,000 words.
I've nearly finished recording the audiobook of
Escape Velocity. It would've been complete had I not had a week-long bout of hay fever that left my voice sounding too throaty.
Our writers' group performed some of our poems at the Bushey Acoustic Festival. We had a float in the town's annual parade, winning third prize. And we romped home with first place in the town's annual quiz, scoring 97 points, 18 points ahead of the runners-up. We did rather better with the book-related questions this year than last year. There was one question whose answer I knew only because I looked it up while I was writing
Escape Velocity!I finally uploaded a new bonus short story for subscribers to my newsletter. It's called
Provisional Report on Laniakea Alpha. It's separate from any of my other stories, and so is spoiler-free. Go to
http://eepurl.com/_5EDX to sign up. The welcome message will tell you where to find the story.