Witches and Ray-Guns

So, what am I up to?

Well, I’m still writing the next Death’s Handmaiden book. It’s still going to be a while before it’s out, unfortunately. I'[d like to get it out for Christmas, but I think it’s going to be January/February at this point. I have been making rather better progress recently because it looked like my father was doing better and could handle being on his own for a while. And now he’s back in hospital with suspected heart problems. At this point, we’re kind of waiting to see what happens, and I’m plotting out Part Four because it helps get my mind off my dad.

While I’m here, I’m now on BlueSky for those wanting to ditch X/Twitter. Search for WitchesAndRayGuns. Hopefully, this post will be the first thing on my feed there. (If WordPress get their act together. Might have to do it manually. See how it goes…)

My graphics work has really suffered over the last few months, simply because the machine I use for graphics has been at home while I’ve been at my dad’s place. I actually forgot how to use the software! So, I’ve been working my way back into it as best I can with some easy stuff. I figured you might appreciate the images. Don’t take these as any indication of something which happens in any of the books, I was just checking out some outfits and relearning the software.

I’ll let you know when I have more news. I hope it’ll be good news, but I have a feeling it’s going to be a bit mixed. Such is life.

I decided to get myself withesandrayguns.com, so you can now get to this blog via https://www.witchesandrayguns.com.

Hopefully, that doesn’t mess with the old address, but that’s part of the reason why I’m making this post. Please let me know if you have any problems.

There’s not much art to dump for The Business of War, but here are the images I did for the new uniform.

Now available, the seventh Death’s Handmaiden book: The Business of War.

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Isn’t life fun?

So, The Business of War, Death’s Handmaiden 7, will be out next month (or maybe late this month). No problem there.

I was planning to start a new series after that, but some things have come up and working on it would be harder than I’d like, so I’m going to do the 8th Death’s Handmaiden instead. It may be a little slow to produce, unfortunately.

Basically, my father isn’t doing too well and I’m having to take some time to look after him. I can work from his home, just not as effectively. That’s going to slow things down. Hopefully, this will be resolved one way or another by the time I’m ready to publish DH8, but we’ll have to see how it all goes.

Interestingly and sort of topically, Dad was ten when the D-Day landings happened (he just had his 90th birthday). Obviously, he was a bit too young to be on the beaches of Normandy, but he remembers bombers flying overhead on their way to Newcastle (it’s in the north-east of England, if you want to look it up) while the Nazis were attacking the major cities back in the war. No one was really bothered about that stuff, he said, until an aircraft attacked an anti-aircraft emplacement on a hill near the village he grew up in. I remember there still being an air-raid shelter in the back garden of my grandparents’ house when I was growing up, and that’s where Dad sheltered when the war got a bit too close. His memory of more modern stuff is getting a bit shaky, but he still remembers things from back then.

Anyway, enough of that. I’ll get back to the writing. Look forward to DH7 in a few weeks.

Click above to go to the collection. There’s not much to see this time, but there is an updated map and a better picture of Hrogthan.

Just wondering how many people noticed the Aliens reference in Disruptive Elements? Pure curiosity.

Still working on the next Death’s Handmaiden book. I think it’s looking good, even if I’m wobbling over precisely how it’s going to end.

The sequel to Elementary, Disruptive Elements, is now available. FYI, I had to put the price up a little, but not too much. Someone bought it before I even got this page up. Thanks.

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Actually, coming tomorrow, barring unforeseen circumstances. Should be out in the afternoon (of April 12th). That’s UK afternoon. Morning in the US. Night for Australia. Aren’t time zones wonderful?!

Calista is going to be taking a little trip. It will involve mud huts and beefy barbarian warriors. There will be a lot of weird magical science.

The title of this magnum opus is: The Greatest Sage, Who is Also a Genius Alchemist and Master Assassin, is Reincarnated as a Slime Who is Also the 19th Son of the Demon King.

Then the back cover blurb reads: The contents of this novel have no passing resemblance to the title.

There’s only one problem: I have no idea what the contents should be!

Actually, I have had a few ideas, but nothing’s really worked so far. Maybe one day…