The sale of my book, Beast-speaker, is going well. It looks like I’ll soon be ordering some more copies. If you want one, it’s very easy to buy it with a credit card here on my web-blog; just look to your right. (Not suitable for young children; high school and up is better.) I’ve noticed that some of you are being a tad recalcitrant about making a purchase. I promise, the Old Boy has set it up so it’s easy-peasy to do.

Now the pressure is on to get Book Two done. It’s giving me some serious headaches. The mess the world is in at the moment is providing plenty of inspiration, so that’s a good thing, but I’m having a lot of trouble working out how to get the story started. I need to get my hero into the city and it’s proving a logistical nightmare. The rest can’t happen until he’s there. I’m tempted to cheat and just begin with the assumption he got there somehow, and begin with him already back home…but I feel I’d be cheating my readers if I did that.

Of course, none of this means diddly-squat if you haven’t read Beast-speaker. (Look to your right and click on the BUY NOW button.) For those of you who haven’t read it, this is all “secret Beast-speaker business”. Don’t you wish you knew what I was talking about?

Okay, this is a shameless plug for my book but, hey, I think it’s worth it. I’ve been delighted with the positive and glowing responses from readers, both eBook and print version. Thank you, everyone. After all, without people actually reading the thing this writing business would just be a masochistic exercise in self-indulgence. We’d just be talking to ourselves and, believe me, there’s already a bit too much of that going on already!

Rex the Wonder Dog sends his greetings.