The Zoe stories are moving on apace. I’ve finished Zoe 4; now it’s a question of whether I move on to Zoe 5 or switch over to another project.
I’ve submitted my crime story to Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. It and EQMM are divisions of the same publisher and have the same address; I can only hope they have different readers.
I’ve been very busy. I’ve heard back from most of the beta readers (they all liked it) for Murder at Minstrel Manor and have been making edits as appropriate. There are also some things I realized on
Murder at Minstrel Manor has gone to beta readers today. Unless they slag it hopelessly, I may be able to publish it sometime in the spring.
With prodigious effort I finished the chapter-by-chapter rewrite of Murder at Minstrel Manor and then a pass-through for copyediting, tweaks, and correction of overlooked inconsistencies. It still nee