Elemental launched today - the culmination of 18 months of hard work and campaigning - and I missed it. I haven't actually seen a copy of my first major hardcover. I am told it is beautiful. I fully believe it. That Michael Whelan cover embues so much possibility and is so perfect for the book. The stories inside are some of the best I have read from SF/F writers. Now it is out of our hands. I hope it sells and sells and sells.

Just finished the second part of Temple, the Apex Digest serial, it's called A Map of You, and moves our Mister Temple's story on in a direction I am certain very few could predict. I'm happy but tired.

Tomorrow it's back to revising the outline for Retribution. I always find it so exhausting to visualise an entire book before writing a single word, and usually go through three drafts of synopses before I am fully content that the story is the tightest it can be.

Gameplan for this week - edits on Slaine and revised outline.

And somewhere along the line - sleep.