Well the novel is finished. It’s 47 chapters including a prologue and an epilogue. Work started in late 1996. Completed early 2010. There’s some kind of weird symmetry in that I suppose. I don’t expect every one of you to care about this because well…you don’t know me…you might not care about the premise, even though you don’t fully know what the novel is about, because I haven’t gone into much depth about the science fiction-thriller-fantasy-horror-literary-epic. Believe me though, if any of you have gone through life thinking that you’re eating, sleeping and farting it away without much to show for it, it feels quite an acheivement.

There’s still the odd bit of text to tidy up, clarify and tighten but essentially the story, the characters and the events have all been completed. Now begins its journey into publication. Which I will attempt to track during the course of the blog. But hey. It’s done. Now I don’t know about you but I’m off to have a chicken escalope with cheese and ham. I don’t like ham that much so I’ll probably scrape that off, which will make the thing look bizarre as it’s in breadcrumbs. Don’t know what’s with my diet lately. I’ve been living off crumpets, water and coffee.