On the weekend, we took a short trip to the Mosel, which is why there hasn’t been an update from me for a while. I’m hoping to get some pics up soon so that I can give an illustrated report.
On the writing side, I’ve been making great progress on Chameleon in a Mirror, over 5000 words last week, and 3000 so far this week. Things are slowing down a bit now, though, because I’ve reached a section where I need to write completely new material — which I have not sufficiently brainstormed or researched yet. 
Tomorrow I have the granddaughters, so probably won’t get much done then either. They are off on vacation on Monday, though, so I need to get some Grandma time in before they’re gone for two weeks.
On the writing business side, today my daughter and I did some work on new covers this evening. Nothing I want to show yet, but I will eventually be posting some designs here on my blog. These are mostly for a series of magic realist short stories set in the fictional town of Rolynka, Alaska. My mother was from Alaska, and I grew up hearing all kinds of whacky tales of gold miners and honey-buckets and tundra and permafrost, and a lot of those second-hand memories fed into these stories. That and my love of the old show “Northern Exposure.” The first story is entitled “In the Middle of Nowhere with Company,” but that’s a bit long for a series title, so I was thinking of give the series the name “Tales from Far Beyond North.” How does that sound?
Hope everyone has a lovely rest of the week!
Ebook – Shadow of Stone. Book Two in the Pendragon Chronicles
Ebook – Yseult for Kindle
Free ebook version of my short story "Mars: A Traveler's Guide" on Smashwords
Looking Through Lace for Kindle
Never Ever After for Kindle
Story Collection: Dragon Time and other stories
The Future, Imperfect for Kindle
Contains my story "Exit Without Saving"
Contains my story "Looking Through Lace"
Contains my story (with Jay Lake) "The Big Ice"
Contains my story (with Jay Lake) "The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Back From the Stars"
Flamme und Harfe
Good progress! And I absolutely love your covers.
Every week I do an interview on my blog. Could I interview you please? Via e-mail.
Would be happy to do an interview, Amy! Glad you like the covers.
Great progress on the writing. And working on covers sounds like fun. Enjoy your week. Have a lovely ROW80!
Thanks, Julie!
Wonderful! Another series! I loved ‘Future Imperfect’. I think its a brillian concept to structure discrete stories all set in the same universe.
… When I read the title, my brain added a ‘the’ … Tales From Far Beyond THE North … don’t know why, but to quote Nanny McPhee … there you have it.
Glad you liked Future Imperfect! I’m trying a new marketing strategy with the Alaska stories, many of which were also previously published — it will be interesting to see how that works out.
Glad you had a good trip and lots of cheers for the writing!! Wonderful progress! Enjoy your Grandma time
Looking forward to your new covers and hearing more about the Alaska stories. I used to loooove Northern Exposure when I was a kid, but I hardly remember it…guess it’s time for a re-watch!!
Definitely time for a re-watch! NE is supposedly the series that instigated the genre of the comedy-drama, and it’s full of amazing meta-fictional and -cultural references as well. Brilliant! Given all the different levels on which its enjoyable, it’s my ideal for how to create ideally accessible fiction.