July's Writing Progress and A Farewell of Sorts

A day earlier than usual, because I'll probably be too busy to post tomorrow. Breda and I are moving from Hertfordshire to Blackpool next week, and we still have a lot to do to get ready. (Mostly, to get rid of as much as we can of twenty years of accumulated clutter before the movers arrive...) I'm moving to be near my family, and she's moving because she loves the sea. I'm keeping the day job. I've been a home worker since 2005, and the pandemic just got rid of the one day a week that I travelled into an office. (Almost everyone I need to talk to day-to-day is in a different timezone from me, so to them, moving 200 miles barely registers.) We'll miss the friends and the social life that we have here, but we'll stay in touch over the internet as much as we can, and we're excited to be starting a new chapter in our lives. And who knows - some of our friends might've meant it when they said they'd come to visit ;-)

In writing news, I added about 10,000 words to Command Authority, which now stands at 106,000 words. I figured out how to break the fusion reactor (see last month's post) and, even better, figured out how to have it deliver much less power than it's designed to when the characters get it working again. That forces them to choose between running the ship's engine and running life support. Spoilers...

As of writing this post, the Summer/Winter Sale at Smashwords still has a day or so to run, so if you haven't got yourself a free or cheap copy of one of my books, now's your chance. Go to https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi... to bag a bargain. Death & Magic and The Mirrors of Elangir are free, and the others are 50% off.