I’m formatting it at the moment, and it’ll be going up shortly. There’ll be two versions to start with — a PDF version (printable) and an HTML (web-friendly) version.
After it goes up, I’ll start sending out passwords to the subscribers and donors so that they can read the chapter. Please be patient with me about […]

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My gosh, has this whole business been getting a lot of attention. Well, I should be grateful.
First of all, a heads-up for those of you who’ve been following the Big Meow saga so far: Now that I’ve decided to go ahead, a weblog isn’t going to be an appropriate home for the project, as […]

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…and in less than thirty-six hours from the time it was proposed.
Wow!!
Let me briefly make plain what this means. The various Big Meow challenge grant donors (with all of whom I’ll be in touch before the weekend is out) and the noble Ted Ts’o, who committed himself to match their donations up to the $1000 […]

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Now that he’s stepped out of the shadows on his own, I want to direct the attention of those who’re interested toward Ted Ts’o, who put up the $1000 challenge grant to kickstart the Big Meow online publication project.
Thanks, Ted!
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For those coming in late, a brief recap.
In mid-December I posted part of a message from a reader and fan of the “Feline Wizards” books who wanted to know when the third book of the trilogy begun with The Book of Night with Moon and continued in On Her Majesty’s Wizardly Service / To […]

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Something has come up which is going to require another day or so to handle before I post about which way this project’s going to go. It’s not a bad something: rather the opposite. (No, no publishers are involved.) But it adds an ingredient to the mix, as it were, that I hadn’t […]

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Just so that people know: I’m aware that this is the Presidents’ Day “long weekend” in the US. So I won’t be posting about the final result of my deliberations until Tuesday morning. (I kind of hate to use the word “decision”: it does, after all, have its root in the Latin word […]

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It’s been two months since I broached this subject. Now it’s time to make a choice. I’ll be evaluating my options over the weekend.
If you have an opinion and you haven’t emailed me, now’s the time.
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I had a query about the subject late last night, so I thought I’d cross-blog the response here. (…”Cross-blog”. Is that a word? Well, it is now.)
As regards The Big Meow: I don’t have enough information yet to make a decision about writing the book, as I haven’t yet hit the “break-even” point […]

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I got an email this morning that started me thinking. Among other things, it said:
Will you ever do a follow up to “To Visit The Queen?” I love those books!
Well, I love them too — I’ve always had a soft spot for those characters. After a few moments I wrote back:
Though I […]

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