Irons in the Fire

Lots of stuff going on at the Compound nowadays.  Apparently I have some need to keep busy at all times with a variety of projects, and must remain behind schedule on each of them.  Or maybe that's just normal life in 2025.  

I've got some great feedback on the latest (5th?) draft of 'Shipwright & Six-Bits' and am looking forward to making a newer, better draft with it.  One of these drafts is going to be the one that goes out the door, I just know it.

Also, I'm working on an outline for the sequel to 'Summoned', in which we revisit our friends Katryn & Donza and see what our favourite necromancer-and-zombie duo have been up to.  Keeping a dead friend alive (alive-ish?) is complicated.

Oh, I'm also working on putting together a special compendium edition of the Borealis series, and large print editions of all my books.

I'm playing in two D&D games, and DMing one as well.  My favourite chuckleheads have been into the jungle looking for a lost city (jungles are like that, it seems) and are somehow still alive.  In the process, one of them may have slightly antagonised the local assassin's guild, which may have put death marks on them.  They managed to avoid the whole getting-murdered part for now, by agreeing to owe a favour to a not-at-all-creepy underworld figure they know nothing about.  It'll be fiiiiine.

In other news, the 'Vikings & Valkyries' podcast continues its inexorable climb to its climax.  A variety of competent guests have joined the podcast for an episode or two, valiantly trying to bring sense to the lunacy.  A reviewer called us 'hapless', which I can't really object to.  We are, for the most part, completely hap-free and unburdened by competence.

But we're having a great time, and that's what it's all about.