Status of the Author, December 2025

November felt like I was drowning in travel plans – first we had a couple trips for regattas, then a trip to CA to see family with a quick visit to Ted’s parents on the way way, another visit to his parents for Thanksgiving, and then I had to reserve hotels and such for a vacation in Florida in January. It will be a road trip so there are a lot of hotels needed plus a car and cat sitter.

But! December gave me plenty of time at home and my beta readers were speedy, so now the The Heart of Percival is just about ready to go to my editor (maybe a few more tweaks…) She was able to make space in her calendar earlier than we’d planned, so I will be sending it off at the end of December. I wasn’t planning on starting the still-nameless Percival Book 3 until Book 2 was out in the world, but between the time until I send the THoP manuscript out and the time the editor needs to work through it, I’ve got almost a month. Which is why I got the first thousand words of Book 3 written yesterday.

I’ve also been playing with ideas for what to do PP (Post-Percival) because I think I am going to stick to my original intention to make it a trilogy rather than a longer series. Not saying I won’t ever come back to Percival, but if I do it will be a different story or another different main character. (There might also be a short story or two.)

One more thing: My short time-travel story, The SubTime Station, has now been published in The Sands of Time, a collection presenting SF stories from fans of Jodi Taylor’s Chronicles of St Mary’s series. So far it just seems to be available on Amazon (US | UK | Australia | Canada ). All profits go to charity.