Friends, it's been a while.

I've had my head down figuring some things out. Completing one round of edits, only for them to reveal more that needs work.

Not a huge amount of work, but enough for me to put the brakes on. It's easy to rush to the finish line, especially when you can see it calling, like some kind of mirage.

Why rush out a book that's taken me so long to wrestle into cohesive shape? There's no benefit. It would be detrimental to me and my work.

It's not just the book polishing that I've been wrangling.

It's learning Kickstarter, the threat of tariffs, selling to the EU, the marketing, my own peaks and troughs of being able to work in the midst of endometriosis flares and ADHD life. It's the fact one of my kids is having major surgery soon. My idea (naive now I think of it) was that I'd have the Kickstarter done and dusted before her operation. But that is unlikely, and as always life blends these things together and I (like most) muddle through.

If I'm quiet, you know I'll be at my desk.

The Dark Beneath Us will be coming very soon - be the first to find out when by joining the waiting list.