new release in progress

[julesjones]

The main edits on If I offered thee a bargain have gone through, and late last night I was sent the draft cover art. The latter is interesting -- it is utterly wrong if considered as a literal representation of what's in the story (white-haired and bare-chested elf when it should be black hair and teeshirt, cliff beach scene instead of drumlin). It's also spot-on in giving an *impression* of what the story's about. I thought about it for at least 3 seconds before saying yes. :-) Because the cover's job is to get the prospective purchaser to fondle the merchandise, and what I've been given does that job well.

I need to check whether I'm allowed to post the draft in public, so not putting it up tonight - maybe later this week.

In other writing news, slightly fitful progress on Taxman. Monday 305 words, Wednesday 323 words, Saturday 333 words, and on Sunday I cracked the 30k mark with 526 words to take it to 30,269 in total.

ETA: final version has just been posted, but I'm too tired now to upload it to my site so I can link to it. Will try to do it tomorrow.