How it feels to deliver a novel.

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Delivery day.

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩c.1300, Dutch word that replaced the Old English.

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Two days to finish this novel.

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Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Old English, with a curious case of a shifting part tense.

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Deadline approaching.

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Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon

Time to read.

A lucky place to pause. at least for me. maybe not for the characters involved.

Just as good in Black & White

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Delicate novel surgery.

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩via Old French and Late Latin to a Greek.
The word entered English in the late 14c., initially tied to astronomical observation, then expanded steadily across centuries into mechanics, literary theory, and everyday life.

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I’ve just heard that one of the true greats of SF writing, Ian Watson, has passed away. A huge figure of the genre and an enormously entertaining character. A real loss.

Same Black Library Weekly, brand new home! Here's what's in the frame this week, including a giveaway and an author Six-Pack of book recommendations.

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Minka Lesk: The Last Whiteshield hits a century!

Thank you dear readers!

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 This useage 1590s, from Spencer, through from Old English, though Tolkien would not approve of this spelling, that did not reflect its Middle English antecedent.

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Back to the rewrite.

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Le Salon des Rêves Le Salon des Rêves : Hill, Justin D., Pavans, Jean: Amazon.de: Books

Ah! you know more than me. It was on the German amazon page... www.amazon.de/-/en/Salon-R...

What is the NRF? New Writers?

Amazing what you find on the internet... here a cover from my first novel, The Drink and Dream Teahouse, in French.

Proof copy, I think, as in true french style - the cover (see below) had a man on the front, smoking.

Up there with the US hb, also below.

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 1570s Kentish term, from a c.1300 verb.

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Never throw anything away.

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Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Going meta on the edits.

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...sounds exciting! 😀

oh good!