Paksworld

I’ve started sending the manuscript to the alpha readers who passed the test.  If you heard from me that you did, and don’t get one by Sunday night (not Sunday morning–I have church), let me know.  My email load is big enough that I can lose things in the inbox.

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This morning I planned to start work on Book Two as soon as I w0ke, and in fact had planned an ambitious attack on it while dealing with a click beetle in the bedroom last night.   (Click beetles, which show up in the house in late summer, are small, harmless, but noisy little beetles that are more active at night and markedly interfere with my sleep.  Last night, for instance, one crawled under my pillow and started jumping and clicking right under my ear.)

Anyway, when I turned on the computer this morning, I had email from the Orbit UK, where they’re working on the omnibus Deed of Paksenarrion and proofreaders had found anomalies.  Could I please check them out?

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Fortuitous combination: a couple of days ago,  I got my contributor’s copy of the October Writer’s Digest in which I have a (commissioned) article on SFWA.  Naturally it became the instant “in the throne-room” reading (it’s new, it’s different) and though I’m no longer a novice writer, there’s still stuff to learn.

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