If anybody is interested in reading the draft of The Drummer Boy -- despite all my agonizing these last weeks -- comment here and I will set you up with links by the weekend.

Thanks to everyone for being patient with me and helping me figure out the structure issues. The fix turns out to be really simple and I feel much better.

So The Drummer Boy is reaching draft status. I'm closing in on the last chapters. I took some time off to revise the earlier chapters and I've made notes for some further revisions, but I'm feeling ready to hear what other people have to say about it. It's long enough, and I'm close enough to the end, that I am pretty confident that by the time you ( Read more... )

So, is the story resolution that the love interests get it on together? Or that they declare their love for one another? Or that they declare their respect for each other ( Read more... )

I don't need this right away but sometime in the next three months I would like to have a word with somebody who can help me make my fictional vaguely-Slavic personal and place names be not stupid. I am envisioning a place where there's a lot of small ethnic groups living close together, so I don't need everything to be extremely consistent. What ( Read more... )