Winter is coming. Well, actually, it is here.
I apologize for the lack of newsletters of late, but I will plead that I’ve been too busy with a clear conscience. While I try to keep the banalities of my personal life to myself, the last few months require some explanation of why I’ve been relatively quiet online. So this one is going to be a little longer than usual.
Of course I’ve been busily working on a number of professional projects, almost all of them Spellmonger related: working with my cartographer on maps, my artists on art, my children on getting Shadowmage into print, not to mention, y’know, furiously writing The Talon and the Flame, setting up The Golden Goblin, and sketching out the notes for Book 18, Seamage. So I’ve been spending an awful lot of time behind the keyboard, as the gods intended.
But Real Life™ goes on, and mundane events have sucked up all of my spare capacities. For one, my dear 80-year-old neighbor, Sonja, had emergency surgery while out of state and required our assistance in her treatment and recovery. To refresh your memory, she’s the Mother of the Mountain where I live, the lady who sold us our lot. and our cherished next-door neighbor. She boards my daughter’s donkeys (because we really needed a pair of rescue donkeys), and we help her with her horse and chickens now that she’s unable to tend them quite as well as she could when she was just 78. Sonja has become my children’s bonus grandmother. She’s also deaf as a post, heavily armed, and highly suspicious of strangers, so tending to her has been quite a challenge.
And then there is the matter of my sister-in-law, who has been stalked by a mentally ill neighbor, leading to some vandalism and an alleged case of arson. She and her son have been enduring this ordeal for months, but it culminated recently with the involvement of the police in a big way. It forced her and her son to relocate, and that transition has been challenging, involving the entire extended family.
Thankfully, she recently got some good news when her boyfriend flew in by surprise and proposed to her spontaneously. She said yes and we couldn’t be happier—I’ve known the dude for more than 30 years, and he’s one of a half a handful of guys I actually approve of. That doesn’t mean I won’t still beat him up if he screws up with her, but I’ll feel really bad about it.
There has been more, as my children prepare to launch and the Yule season is here. My Christmas tree is up but not yet decorated, and my living room looks like a particularly poorly organized Amazon warehouse. Then there is the matter of the election and its fallout. In general the list has just grown to near my capacity to contend with it, so I haven’t done as much in terms of public interaction, and for that I apologize. I just wanted to explain why, so you wouldn’t think I was being purposefully aloof or brooding or otherwise out of sorts.
All of that said, here are a few things I think my fans would be interested in.
First, I want to call attention to this magnificent rendering of Sevendor that was published on YouTube last month:
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