Work in Progress? I find myself without one! For more than half a year! Which is demoralizing.

Not to say there aren’t plenty of candidates—incomplete MSs that, for one reason or another, aren’t in progress. For some months a pathetic listing of them took up this space until I found it too upsetting.

What I do have are two complete drafts of novels, currently in my agent’s hands but certain to require revision to one degree or another before they see print: Deprivation and The Unexpected Thing.

As well, I spent the autumn and early winter working out the table of contents for a collection of fantastical stories to be issued by Lethe Press this summer. Title: You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home: wonder stories. The main part of which, yes, is intended to be read two different ways. Barring last-minute changes, it will contain ten stories, all written in the last five years.

But that’s done: the book is laid out, cover images selected if not purchased and slotted into the design—indeed, you can pre-order the print edition at Amazon already (price subject to change).

So what now, AX? What now?