Where did the time go?

Doing some tidying up, both physical and virtual, and came across the email conversation with my editor discussing the recently submitted draft of Lord and Master 2, and my plans for the third Lord and Master book. *Detailed* plans, and whether what I had in mind would fit in with Loose Id. But with a comment that if a job resulted from one of the interviews that week, it would take a while to write.

That conversation was five years ago this week.

It wasn't just the new job that resulted from one of those interviews, although that basically chewed up six months of all of my time and energy. A lot of it was one medical issue after another over the last four years, starting with the vicious viral infection that started a couple of weeks before Redemption 2009 and wouldn't go away.

At least now I'm back to being able to write reasonably consistently for stretches of several weeks at time, and did actually manage to complete the first draft of a short novel over the last 7 months, in spite of a couple of interruptions. That doesn't mean L&M3 is going to get worked on any time soon -- it's a complex story that needs to be very carefully managed and will take some time to write even if I'm fully fit and can give it my undivided attention. Realistically, I'm better off doing another one-off short novel I'd outlined last year, and getting Nice Tie up to submission standard. Any serious work on it is at least a year off, I suspect. Bit I do still intend to write it some day.

Kickstarter: Girl Genius

Another item from Kickstarter that might be of interest -- and it has only a few hours to run. Studio Foglio is running a Kickstarter to fund the print run of the next volume of webcomic Girl Genius, and has a number of interesting rewards, including one of interest to those who've never read it. There's a special pdf-only pledge at $10 that gets you the pdf edition of the new volume -- *and* of all the digital goodies unlocked as stretch goals. Which at this point includes omnibus pdf editions of all the previous volumes. While the comic is free online, this is a very cheap way to pick up a set of pdf compilations. I've been meaning to get around to reading it, and never have, so this was a good opportunity for me to get into it.

(If you're already into Girl Genius, you probably know about the Kickstarter already, but there's a shedload of other stuff available in the unlocked stretch awards, besides the chance to pick up the print edition of Volume 12.)