endings

Whoop de do. Finished the novel Earthbound this morning. Got up around three and finished the last page just after six. Still a bit of polish to be done, but it'll be in the mail next week.

(Yes, Virginia, some New York publishers still want paper copies. Of course I'll send an e-copy as soon as it's ready.)

Holiday finishes aren't unprecedented in this house. I finished the Star Trek novel Planet of Judgment on Christmas morning.

I started the trilogy (as a novella called "Mars is Hell!" and retitled "The Mars Girl") on 14 December 2004, so the three books took about six years.

I'm eager to start the next book, but will take off a couple of days on general principles. Right now I'd better help Gay get the place ready for seventy or eighty of our closest friends.

Happy old year!

Joe