Tatto For You

What we have below is two page layout views of the first few chapters of Book 3 (those who know MS Word will know what this is, which is probably most of you). The first is Draft 1, the second Draft 2 with all the changes tracked in red. ADDENDUM as of 1/7/9 ~ WELL... the above is what you would have seen, but a contractual issue back o' house has me now removing said images - though they were diagrammatic and illegible - from the public space. For those who saw them and were edified by them, glad to be of encouragement. For those who did not, well, wow, they were the most spectacular things you will ever behold in your span of years upon this planet... there was certainly a lot of red on them anyway. You will be able to see them again once Book 3 is out... in a little while... Apologies to my publishers for my careless enthusiasm to share. Sorry folks, more normal transmissions will resume in their usual erratic manner. Happy New Financial Year, btw.

Almost two weeks on (!) I surface from the Sea of Words - the Pontus Logia - to say what a swell time I had at Conjecture 2009 ; met many amazing folk - organisers, readers, writers and editors alike - though no one from here (thank you for asking Portals ). Apologies to you Klesita for not letting you know earlier, would have been great to meet you - I could have answered you questions that are still rattling about my noggin, directly... How about I do so now anyway. The one most on mind is... One of the things that intrigues me more is how Clementine, been so far away from everywhere and more over been so far inland, became a centre of power. Most centres of power become that because their position is strategic in one way or another. What is strategic about this place? I must admit when I look at the placement of Clementine/ Benevente on the map I do scratch my head a little and wonder how it got to be so powerful. Its strategic significance is not nearly as relevant in the curr...

I am surfacing from my Pit of Editing [TM] ( cess pit, maybe...?) to let those of you in the Adelaide vicinity know that I will be doing a reading and what they call an 'author appearance' on Saturday 6 th June ( this Saturday!) at this year's Conjecture Spec Fic convention . Details as follows: Saturday 2:30 - 3:30 1st floor Holiday Inn, Hindley Street, Adelaide ...then at 5:30 at same venue I will be helping to launch Richard Harland's most excellent new truly steampunk offering, Worldshaker , a novel definitely worth your time to read (I liked it so much they put what I thought of it on the cover). Along with this book I cannot recommend highly enough Richard's WritingTips website. You can even download a . pdf of the entire document for free FREE FREE from the site . Richard is an absolute legend for producing it, so go see, please! It is an veritable mine on the whole process of this thing called writing , from getting going to getting published -...