Updates!
Hi, everyone
Good news first – The Demon’s Design has completed its final set of edits and should be up for purchase soon. The Firelighters is currently being edited and hopefully be available for purchase in a week or two. A Hope in Hell has been finished and is currently with the editor. It was the first novel I wrote more or less completely with Dragon dictation software so I am dreading the editor’s first sweep. I corrected a lot of mistakes as I went along, but some will have slipped through the net.
In related news, you can purchase audio versions of All for All, The Conjuring Man and Gennady’s Tale.
The frustrating thing is that I started The Land of Always Summer today and Dragon, for want of a better word, suddenly turned into a nightmare. I started training it up on purely textual essays and then moved on to writing short stories, snippets, and lately a full novel. It did very well until this morning, whereupon it seemed to have crashed all the way back to the start and worse. It is missing words, refusing to recognise commands – the “quote that” command is replaced by orders to cut or print, for example – and it has generally slowed down so much that I found my writing speed reduced sharply. Worse, the cursor seems to be jumping around at random to the point that I sometimes find I have overwritten earlier texts or inserted words where they don’t belong.
There was always an issue with correcting words, but now the programme seems to have completely degenerated. It has slowed to the point of near-uselessness.
Does anyone know what is wrong with the system and how I can fix it?
The current schedule looks something like this:
June – The Land of Always Summer
July – Judgement Day (Ark Royal)
Sept – The Apprentice Mistress (Schooled in Magic)
I also have to write The First Witch’s Tale, which is a story about the first woman to practice magic in Whitehall School, and a short novella aimed at young teenagers about two young boys who purchase a starship and with their older sister into tow, out to have adventures amongst the stars. The provisional title is “Boy’s own starship”, but I don’t know if I will be allowed to keep it.
As always, if you have any feelings about what should come first please feel free to reply to this post.
Chris
