Royce's Random Thoughts

Summary: Penric, Sorcerer of the Bastard, though only tangentially of the Bastard’s Order, has been in possession of his demon, Desdemona, for eleven years since the events of this series’ first novella, “Penric’s Demon”. Older, wiser, and wanting to be well away from his old post at Martensbridge, his new duty as a courier turns out not to be all that it could, seeing as it lands him in an oubliette as soon as he arrives distant, sunny Cedonia.

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1. After getting over a page written on Shadow of the Red Vixen over the weekend, I've completely stalled out this week. I'm trying to confine my writing time to home, rather than moving the file back and forth from home to work, to minimize the number of formatting problems between Word and Open Office. The problem is that home is busy, with me going to bed only a bit after the kids go to sleep, so I don't really get quiet time (Tom has been waking up super earl in the morning, so no joy there either.) I'm hoping to get a significant amount of work done on Friday, which I've got off.

2. At work I've been writing short installments of a Curse of Chalion fanfic which has actually been going well. Mornings have been slow at work recently so I can just toss a thousand words together and get it posted every day, which is cool.

3. I still haven't done much on beta reading that LoZ fanfic for much the same reason as Point One. I suck.

4. After a month of slow sales at Amazon, where I figured i was only going to get half my usual purchases of CotRV, I got two sales on it last night, making this month's total eight in all, along with a sale each on Teal's Choice and Teal's War. Add in one sale of Unexpected Diversions and sales are looking more normal now. I still want to get cracking on Shadow before sales and interest on CotRV dry up.