Something weird happened yesterday.  I was re-reading and revising the novel so far (working title:  Winter's End) off the icloud version when I discovered that Chapter III had been text clipped out of existence.  All that was left was its title.  I'd never heard of text clipping before nor had I asked for it nor did there seem to be any way to ( Read more... )

A chat on Messenger got me thinking about how my family ended up in Wisconsin and built this house in 1891:

My grandmother with whom I lived as a child told me that we are the descendants of 19th century New York state Millerites. Convinced that Jesus was about to return, they sold their farm, put on white nightgowns, and sat on the chicken coup ( Read more... )

A question for my Mac readers.  What's the difference between cloud drive and icloud drive?  I want to use one for the primary manuscript and the other for automatic back-up, but maybe it doesn't work that way.  And how does my mac hard drive figure in this?  I'm terrified of losing what I write since upgrading OS screwed up all of my files..

I'm finally working on Novel 11 again, and find a potentially disastrous gap in my memory.  It's important to the plot that the Coman and the Edirr are backed by different major houses in the Riverland, but my notes don't make clear which by which.  Although both are small houses, neither the Edirr nor the Coman is very interested in national ( Read more... )

I just received the following offer from Audiobooks, and am passing it on in case anyone wants to take advantage of it.


( Read more... )

CJ just pointed out to me that I haven’t posted on LJ for a year.  Yike ( Read more... )

I gather that today Deathless Gods came out.  A couple of days ago I did an online interview on it which you can find at https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-deathless-gods-author-p-c-hodgell/and Baen is doing a podcast due out later which may or may not be all right:  I often don't do well in live interviews ( Read more... )

Morgan reminded me that I am indeed attending Chicon in Chicago this week.   As I told him, I love to meet fans.  This is my schedule.  Otherwise, alas, they didn't give me a reading slot:

Friday, September 2, 2022
11:30 AM
Autographing - P. C. Hodgell
Autographing, Duration: 60 mins

Saturday, September 3, 2022
4:00 PM
Table Talk - P. C. Hodgell
( Read more... )

Did I ever say that Lord Brandan and his sister Brenwyr were twins?  That seems to be a recurrant theme, but I can't remember if I was explicit here.

Speaking of twins, something new from  Novel 11:

Prologue

The Riverland:  Winter 24 - 25

I

The room was dark and stiflingly hot.  Sage burned on the hearth, but failed to cover an underlaying ( Read more... )

Baen tells me that the eARC of Deathless Gods is now available for purchase ( https://www.baen.com/deathless-gods-earc.html).  It will be out in trade-paperback in October.

I'm still struggling to gain traction with the next (last?) book in the series, not helped by a muggy heatwave that makes thinking hard. I hope that the weather is better ( Read more... )