November is halfway gone, and that means it's time for our last stop along the road that runs from Sparrow Hill to the Last Chance Diner. Next month, we reach our destination; next month, old friends come calling, old bills come due, and everything comes to an end (hopefully with a minimum of steaming wreckage). Our year-long journey is finally almost over. But for now...

Issue 59 of The Edge of Propinquity is live, and with it, the eleventh of the Sparrow Hill Road stories is available. "Faithfully" takes us back to Rose Marshall's past, and into the arms of Gary Daniels, the only man she ever loved among the living. But everything that loves dies. Can she help the man who once brought her home find his own way there?

There are a lot of stories trapped and tangled in the twilight. This is only one of them. But it's the one I have to tell.

Welcome to the ghostroads.

Draft 1.5 stats:

Words: 114,115
Pages: 419
Chapters: thirty-five
Started: I have absolutely no idea
Finished: November 15th, 2010

As is pretty much always the case, as soon as I finished One Salt Sea, I turned around and did some serious revisions, trimming the language, clarifying the action, unsnarling the timeline, and totally replacing several chapters. As is also pretty much always the case, this process made the book unutterably better. Seriously, this is an infinitely better book than it was two weeks ago, and also, it's still finished.

I'm currently waiting for feedback from The Agent and my proofing pool, after which I will make final pre-editorial changes and ship the whole thing off to The Editor, saving my sanity and allowing me to get to work on Ashes of Honor. I'm starting to get excited about this prospect. I get to find out what happens next! And, y'know, consequentially, so do you.

Eventually.