street date!

Yes, it's odd that I usually get this first from Amazon -- but it looks like the publication date for A Star Shall Fall will be August 31st. (The day before my birthday!) For those who have been champing at the bit to get this one, at least now you know when to expect it.

changing modes . . . now.

I wish I had a switch I could flip in my brain, that would let me transition cleanly and quickly from thinking about one story to thinking about another.

Because I was working happily on game prep for tonight when something came along and knocked my brain onto another track entirely, and now I can't get it back. It's hard enough, gear-switching from the nineteenth century American West to nineteenth-century London; now I've got Option C distracting me, too, and it's completely unrelated to everything else.

It's potentially a good distraction, mind you. But still very inconvenient. If only I could turn it on and off at will.