Some of the prologue:

Everybody knows that three children are as lucky as it is possible for offspring to be; especially the third of three. They are the heroes and heroines of every good story, the wisest and the most beautiful-and possessed of an uncanny ability to fall on their feet on every possible occasion. It followed, therefore, that ( Read more... )

I was about to post some extracts when I realised that, actually, I had better give you a brief run down of what's actually going on first.

So here goes!

The Queen of Rivers rules over what is colloquially known as The Land of Rivers, although it probably does have another (more official) name. For hundreds of years the Treaty of the Waters has ( Read more... )

Good heavens, I'm tired.

Durham is much further away than I pretend when I'm not doing the journey.
Time with relatives has also not been entirely conducive to NaNoWriMo, but here's some snippets from What's Going Down in my NaNo.

To follow on from
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So, the latest job.

It's in a pharmaceuticals warehouse. It's big, it's kinda grubby, and it's full to the brim with boxes with long names on the front. Great. And my job? I unpack boxes.

...and then I unpack more boxes.

...and then I go and find some more drugs for packing into other boxes.

...and then I unpack boxes.

For eight hours every day for ( Read more... )