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"Odalisque" contained a lot of elided dialogue, now removed in re-writing. But something resembling the ghost of elided dialogue is seen in this new exchange from "Margaret Again" Chapter 12:

Eric Marsh greeted us: “Ah, your highness, and err… friends.”

“Yes, we’re her friends,” Lisa-Louise said, dropping her h.

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With my books being print on demand, I wonder whether that means they'll be printed in the country where the purchaser lives. (In the USA for American purchasers.) If so, it should be possible to buy copies in America no matter how long the volcanic ash lingers in the air.

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I've had rather a wonderful day working on "Margaret Again" Chapter 13.

The chapter had its origins in part of an "Odalisque" chapter. Only the "Odalisque" chapter combined two elements which seemed to me not to belong together. So, broke the "Odalisque" chapter in two, of which "Margaret Again" Ch 13 was smaller half. (Less than a third, in fact.) Chapter 13 started (in fact) as a fragment of just over 5 pages, and I wanted to beef it up to about 24 (the possibility of which I doubted it). Over the last couple of days, I've added to Ch 13 and had (as of yesterday) worked it up to 8 or 9 pages (a bit of which I thought might be no more than padding). Today I hoped to have it up to at least 12 pages -- but that looked as though it would be a struggle. (And where, I wondered, would the other dozen pages come from?) In the event, I was on a roll, and breezed through the chapter today. Far from inserting padding, I found myself addressing several important matters. And (to my surprise) the chapter ended up longer than I wanted -- so I removed the passage about which I was doubtful. Then the chapter was about the length I desired. After that, I feel on a high. Of course, I'll have to go through the chapter carefully, but I'm confident that it is now (essentially) what I want it to be. Yay!! :)

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A writer saying 'Yay!' after a day of writing is a moment truly to cherished. There's nothing else like it in life.

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Nothing else like it (inevitably) reminds me of Through the Looking Glass:

[the White King eats hay because he's feeling faint]

Alice was glad to see that it revived him a good deal. "There's nothing like eating hay when you're faint," he remarked to her, as he munched away.

"I should think that throwing cold water over you, would be better," Alice suggested, "---- or some sal-volatile."

"I didn't say there was nothing better," the King replied. "I said there was nothing like it." Which Alice did not venture to deny.

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Recently, I was about to make a character speak of avoiding something like the plague. But that seemed too much of a cliché, so I made it pox instead of plague. On reflection this seemed insufficient, so I changed it to the penny brothel pox. Sounds Like something well worth avoiding!

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Not part of The Warriors of Love, but written by me, my copies of Golden Goddess and Bloody Times arrived yesterday. It's short (68 pages), includes pictures and (I think) is looking good. I am mindful that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland begins with this paragraph:

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"

It seems to me that Alice had a good point. I ensure that The Warriors of Love novels have plenty of conversations, and Golden Goddess has pictures.

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The Warriors of Love have now invaded my avatar!

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I picked that cover for my new avatar because it's the darkest of them (which seemed appropriate for this site). Perhaps because it's the darkest, it's the one that seems to display least well in small (avatar) size. Oh well...

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Emails from Lulu today: I forgot to put ISBNs on my copyright pages. So I need to add them. So there will be delay to my books being available on Amazon etc. They'll probably be available on Amazon in July now (or so I think). They are still directly available from Lulu (I think).