Update #1 - October 2025

 The proof copy arrived Monday, and was pretty clean except for a small design problem on the front cover which I didn't notice in the preview. I fixed that, and also corrected a couple of things in the text which I wouldn't have bothered with otherwise - a missing comma at the end of some quoted text, and some missing quotation marks on one of the poems. I published the revised version yesterday and ordered a second proof copy. This process is why I needed all the proofreading finished in September. My next job is to finish up the Smashwords/Draft2Digital version, which is scheduled for publication November 1st. 

My next book will be Mac Criomthann Tales III, which shouldn't take long - I'll be editing the new stories a bit to take out the narrator parts. I might have that one out by January 1st. Then I'll move on to Taliesin: King Arthur's Bard, which will cover Taliesin's early life before Gwernin meets him. Farther down the road after that is the last Gwernin trilogy, called "The Fall of the North". The individual book titles are The Last True King, Three Hundred Spears, and The Fall of the North. There will be some heavy going in all three of those books. And yes, I've had them planned for several years, even if not in detail. After that - well, that is a story for another day!

The leaves of the ash tree outside my window have turned gold and are falling. Still no frost, but it can't be long. I hope it holds off a couple more weeks so my scarlet runner beans can mature - there are a lot of them that set last month after the Japanese beetles were no longer eating the flowers! Four weeks now to Samhain, and winter.