Nothing much to report except that I've passed 90,000 words on the historical novel and it's coming along well. I expect to have a finely polished draft of some 150,000 words by the end of the year and then we'll see what happens. It looks as if the title will be What the Wind Brings.

 

The only other news is a couple of nice reviews of "Curse of the Myrmelon," the new Raffalon/Cascor story in the latest issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Lois Tilton reviewed it for Locus online and Martha Burns did so for Tangent Online, adding "the banter was delightful."

 

It's true. I do give good banter.

 

"Curse" is my twenty-sixth appearance in F&SF (twenty-seventh if you make allowances for my Neb-nominated Guth Bandar novella, "The Helper and his Hero) having been serialized over two issues). If you'd told me fifty years ago, when I was sixteen and dreaming of being an sf writer, that I'd become one the magazine's regulars, I would have been over the moon. Hell, even at the fully ripened age of sixty-six, I'm still pretty chuffed.