Last night I finished reading Life in a Medieval Castle, by Joseph & Frances Gies. It’s a book I’d picked up as general background research for Fell Gard. I was pleasantly impressed. The book gives a good overview of the development and military use of castles, but as its title promises also looks at castles […]

I just wrote a long response about a post on Mark Lawrence’s blog. Since it was too long for the comment form there, I put it into a reply to the Facebook link to the post. But just in case, I thought it might be worth putting up here, as well. It’s a discussion of […]

As I said yesterday, I’ve edited the first three parts of Fell Gard pretty thoroughly by this point. I’m happy that everything’s remained, I think, largely intact, though some things have become smoother and a few bits have been added. I’ll be looking at the more significant additions and smoothings in the days to come. […]

So about four months ago I said I’d be editing the already-published Fell Gard chapters, with an eye toward leading up to generating new work. That’s what I’ve been doing. It’s taken longer than I thought. But I’m getting close to starting up the tale where I left off before. And as that point draws […]

I remember a few years ago, when comics writer Kurt Busiek, then writing The Avengers for Marvel as well as his own Astro City title, was being slowed down by persistent sinus infections. That is, Astro City was slowed down; he found he was still able to produce The Avengers regularly. It was a different kind […]

So, what I said three weeks ago, about the medication working? It was doing fine, meaning that I was just about able to catch up with work that’d stacked up during November, and deal with Christmas shopping, and move forward on putting the first Fell Gard ebook together … … And then I caught the […]

The medication’s having a good effect, and ongoing edits are ongoing. A few changes of note: — In 3.6, Richard used to ask if Ygerna was from one of the Kelation kingdoms; now he asks if she’s from the Auberkish. The answer’s the same. Basically, I’ve changed my mind slightly about how people would think […]

Things have slowed to a crawl, and I wanted to let people know what was going on. I’ve mentioned in the past that I have a minor medical condition; it’s in no way dangerous, but it does slow me down when it hits. In late October I got what I thought was a cold — […]

I’m feeling healthier these past days, and have begun working on Fell Gard again. I’ve started editing the past chapters as a way of getting back into the story, and I’ve updated the online versions of the first six chapters (Part One). I’m hoping to get through Parts Two and Three over the next little […]

Still feeling sick, though. I’d always been planning to go until early to mid-December, the end of Part Four (and the Second Codex), then take a break until early January. So basically what’s happening is that I’m having some of that break early. When I start up again, I’ll do as I planned, go to […]