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Another Chronicle of Sorrows hint request came over the weekend.  I haven’t posted about the contest in a while, so maybe I should rectify that.

As of this posting, the Chronicle of Sorrows game is still unsolved!   (Though, thanks to the magic of Google Analytics, I see folks are making good progress.)  The first person to successfully access the contents of John Stephenson’s desk is elegible to win a signed advanced review copy of Bitter Seeds.  (I say eligible because I recognize that some folks might not want an ARC.  And I’m not about to force somebody to take one.)

A summary of the game, and some suggestions, below the cut.

It seems an odd thing to say, but I have to admit it never occurred to me that being a writer—even a fledgling one, as in my case—would bring me into greater contact with people.  But it has, in ways I never expected.  This has been, by far, the greatest unexpected benefit to come out of my writing efforts.

Had a pretty good writing day today.  Not so much with the actual typing and producing of pages (though I did more than my day’s quota of that, too), but with that other part of writing—the part that involves pacing, muttering, and staring at the ceiling fan for hours on end. 

That is to say, the hard part.  Which is also, on good days, the really fun part.

…definitely check out this week’s Sword and Laser podcast!

I had the great pleasure of chatting with Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont over Skype last night.  Tom and Veronica are the mad geniuses behind the S&L podcast, and (as I mentioned previously) they kindly chose Bitter Seeds as their most recent reading selection.

The full episode is here.  Hear me babble nonsensically for minutes on end!