Oh no, Still in November

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Hello again Reader,

Man, it feels like a month has gone by since November started, but we’re only done with the first week! Over here it’s just rain and fog and more rain and its dark when I wake up and dark when I go to sleep. Sunrise is at 8:00 and sunset is at 16:00. Days feel like they meld together to form a thick slushy stream. Have I mentioned already that I don’t like November?

Chronologies wise, I’ve started writing book three! That means that I’ll start rewriting book two and start posting it in due time. Expect the first chapter to be out sometime next week. Man do I want to talk about it already, but I don’t want to get into spoilerinos. Though the first chapter of book two ain’t out yet, keen eyes might’ve spotted something extra hiding on the site behind a surreptitious link. I won’t say what it is, you’ll just have to find it yourself.

I also must confess that I’ve not yet formatted book one into a reader friendly PDF. This last week, three new courses have begun and thus dumped a moderate workload onto my shoulders. In addition, next week I will be spending the aforementioned dwindling daylight hours stuck within our campus’ fluorescent and sterile classrooms. Yay.

So, there are two things to expect from next week. Formatted PDF and the first chapter of book two. Also, go and see if you can find the extra I’ve mentioned.

Nothing much else has happened since my last post, so I’ll not torture you with a drawn out essay on how bored I’ve been, and what I’ve done to combat said boredom.

Here’s a unrelated photo of the Edmund Fitzgerald:

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Image by Greenmars under CC BY-SA 3.0 at Wikimedia.org 

 Thank you once again for reading.

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