Actually, I should clarify and simplify

If I am saying something:

You should understand that I am interpreting what I say in the most positive way for me and mine, and the most negative way for thee and thine.

If you are telling me something (instruction, order, etc)

I will always interpret it in the most positive way for me and mine, and the most negative way for thee and thine.

If I am replying to my accursed master, I will always phrase it as if I mean:

The most positive way for thee and thine, and the most humble/subservient way for me and mine. But in reality, it's just the opposite.

I should point out, this works the same way for djinn's and wishes etc.

Hi,

So the big hold up has been that about 2 weeks after book 1 was published I started a contract job downtown where I work in an office for about 9 hours plus travel. First time in about 12-13 years, traditionally I work remotely maybe a trip for a week a month or 1 to 2 days a week onsite.

This everyday thing killed my schedule on lots of fronts, but in particular book 2. (when working at home, I can mix up my schedule so if I get a strong urge to write, I write and then work later and vice versa...doesn't work that way in an office--plus office burns you out).

That ends this month, so I hope to do a big push in Feb/March and wrap the book up. We shall see.

At this moment, I am working on the 2nd Edition of Book 1 as well. It is currently at an editor, getting a proper/professional editing. I am also trying to solicit new cover art...for it and Book 2.

Once Book 2 is done, it goes to Beta...no idea how long that will take, but let's say a couple weeks, plus inclusion time/rewriting. Then it goes to editor. With Book 1 she wanted 6 weeks. Once that's done another week or for formatting/kindlizing etc. (Deadtree galley process etc)

So...if I can finish it in March, figure April/May for Beta and Editing. Meaning June-ish for release.

Sorry it keeps getting longer but this weird "go to a job everyday" thing really threw off my schedule.

T-A-G

He's full of excuses...if he was a demon his master would not stand for this sort of tardiness.

Accursed Masters don't put up with slothfulness.

Someone needs to summon T-A-G, turn him into a demon and order him to hurry up and finish the book already!

I don't know of any that do, demon wizards that is (human wizards most likely don't know about the myopia).

Clearly, Exador should be able to do this as he fits the bill. Perhaps he does do this. It is curious how he got all those demons to fill the halls of the palace. And there were a lot of little ones, maybe he's raiding grade schools for a very pliable army of demon servants?

It would kind of make Fagin (Oliver Twist) look like Santa Claus....

And you only thought you had a Hard Knock Life, little orphan Annie...wait until daddy Exabucks adopts you...

Yeah!

I just wish the real world worked like this forum and the more you talked, the higher your rank...

If the Abyss worked that way, I'd be Lillith's boss by now!

Well, I didn't say that the real world worked like this forum, only that I wish it did.

I'd give her a run for her money on talking though...

And she pretty much is the definition of girl/woman as in she came before her ex-husband's second wife, who everyone insists was the first woman...I guess that makes Lillith the zeroeth woman.

The ProtoWoman...and according to the Holy Texts, not made out of her husband's spare parts.

I'm hoping to figure out how to make the 2nd edition a free upgrade...not yet sure how that works.

I know minor updates/changes get or can get propagated, not sure on a second edition...I should hope it would be. If they make it a hassle, I'll try to figure out something...I want people who bought the first edition to get the second. Technically, their buying the first edition paid for the editing of the second edition...

Super!

Cool hat by the way!

I believe you are correct.

One of the great benefits of haberdashery is opportunity to breathe in mercury vapors, my friend Alice has a close personal friend who makes hats, he became extremely lucid the more hats he made. He throws the best tea parties, and is one of the few people that I can have a long and in depth conversations with.

The Author Guy unfortunately lives about half a block from a Goorin Brothers Hat Shop where he gets his hats so he doesn't get the opportunity to inhale any mercury.

And for a full range of gentlemen's attire might I suggest the Emporium stores

They have Victorian, Steam Punk and Western fashions and accessories for both men and women.

However, as I said, I think making one's own hats leads to a happier, more rational outlook, if you follow the classic traditions, that is.

Death, actually.

Having talked to my share of dead people, I can attest they are all remarkably unchallenged. Seriously bored,

This is why so many people choose to get reincarnated. Sitting around on a cloud playing a harp gets really old, really fast. No worries about food, no worry about obtaining mercury...

Can you imagine sitting on a cloud listening to or playing harp music for well...13 billion years so far...if one died today, i'm sure they'd be stuck on a cloud for at least another 13 billion years.

So, OK, maybe Antefalken, being a bard, wouldn't have a problem with that...but I couldn't take it.

I suppose that's why I'm down here in the Abyss.