... and in all honesty, I don't know if I'm going to make it or not.

However, I'd like to get within hailing distance of it, at least, which means my head is going to be very firmly in novel-space for the next few weeks. One result, I fear, is that I have fewer thoughts to spend on blogging.

So, if anybody has an topic they'd like discussed, please feel free to suggest it and I'll get round to it when I can. Other than that, I'll be surfacing at intervals when possible - but if you don't hear from me, or hear from me and I don't say anything very interesting, I haven't been kidnapped by rogue reindeer, I'm just trying to grapple my book over the finishing line.

Sorry about that; normal service will be resumed, um, at some point.