And I have been writing like mad - all of a sudden back in the groove. I am now half way through the first draft of the second book, Stormshifter (working title). The final book will probably be around 180,000, but I aim to get the first draft to 170,000 because I always like - and invariably need - about 5,000 words more before I complete the second draft, and then another 5,000 between second draft and publication. So here it stands at the moment on picometer halfway to the end of the first draft:
And Hrugaar has pointed out that Interaction Glasgow was 2005, of course (see last post). Plus the fact that the book I was thinking of was Anne McCaffrey's two Dinosaur Planet books. (And he says he has a bad memory. Huh.)
Today was a spend-the-time-at-hospital-clinic day, all re my 2 numb fingers. The good news is that they are SO much better. Not normal, but at least they don't have the feeling of two bananas struck on the end of my hand any more. It has taken 10 months to get to this point.
And the other good news was an email out of the blue from someone I had not heard from in 25 years. I love search engines.