I've been dealing with various technical issues about publication this week, including some of the residual issues from my original self-publishing. The only part that actually has to do with writing is some minor revisions to The Last Man in the World for the new edition being published this fall.

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Sorry to have disappeared for so long! I've been busy with final edits of Bounds of Decorum, and I think it's stronger than it was before. Meantime, Morning Light is in my agent's hands. And today I got a copy of the cover artwork for the formerly-named Last Man in the World. It'll be available in bookstores this autumn.

I'll be back with a longer post soon!

For anyone looking to purchase a copy of Without Reserve, the Sourcebooks edition is still inexplicably unavailable, and outside sellers are scalping the old edition for scary prices. Until the new edition becomes available, I've made the original edition temporarily available at Lulu. Sorry for the inconvenience!

The good news is that I actually opened the Bounds of Decorum file and have been thinking about what to do with it. The bad news is that I'm not actually writing it. I had to turn in the manuscript for The Last Man in the World (soon to be renamed Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy: The Last Man in the World, not by my choice), and I also polished up my short story "A Whiff of Darkness" (now renamed "A Brighter Future") which is now posted at 50 Miles. It's enough to make a person think about issues of titling a story.

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The last couple of days have been consumed by AI's server outage. There wasn't anything we could do about it from this end, but we got a backup of the static parts of AI set up at www.austeninterlude.pemberleyvariations.com.

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