Update: All right, That’s Handy

So, I really liked Marie’s idea to rewrite a few scenes from Hedesa from Kelleos’ point of view and drop those into the newsletter, and I started to do that, and paused about two paragraphs in and said, “Oh, he’s writing a letter!”

And that’s what’s going in the newsletter in a couple of days. I think I set it to drop on the 5th. It’s about 5000 words because, I mean, if you go to the trouble of sending a letter to someone who’s about 1500 miles away and the letter needs to be carried by hand, there’s no point dashing off a quick note. It’ll explain a bit more about what Gedes thought was going on when he shoved Raga. I wouldn’t have understood that myself until writing Hedesa. It has to do with Gedes’ protectiveness, which I realized was a major thing for him pretty quickly, but I don’t think I knew it when I wrote that first chapter.

After that, I kind of had an idea for a shortish story unrelated to the Tuyo world and wrote that, so that was Saturday and a bit of Sunday. It’s actually a story that shows the first time Thaniel Hale met any Ubez, from Hale’s point of view. This sort of thing happens when I’m listening to audio chapters. This narrator is fabulous, by the way. I’m going to try to get a Chirp deal for the Invictus duology as soon as both books are finished.

So that takes care of the October newsletter, unless, I mean, I might write something else instead for October. A Halloween story would be appropriate. Anyway, the newsletter is under control for a few months, so that’s good, and it’s always super handy to think of ideas suitable for short stories when I kind of need short stories. I wish it always happened. If anybody else has suggestions, don’t hesitate, because that has sometimes been super helpful, as Marie’s suggestion was.

Meanwhile, I have comments back for Sekaran, and it shouldn’t take long to write the little additional things I haven’t done yet, so by this time next week, I expect I’ll be ready to begin dropping a chapter or half-chapter per week at my Patreon and sending the whole thing to a couple more early readers. I’m glad I have that planned for a November release instead of October because that’s just relaxing. Unless the cover is delayed and then it will be essential and also stressful.

Meanwhile, I’m picking lots and lots of apples and desperately making apple cake, apple pie, chicken with apples, pork chop with apples …

Conner wants allllll the pillows

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