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SHAPECHANGER'S DESTINY is now available

I just published the ebook Shapechanger’s Destiny on Amazon. It completes the trilogy Mary McCarthy: Shapechanger. Click images to read the first few pages and to buy the books.

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MARY is BUILDING an AIRPLANE

MARY is BUILDING an AIRPLANE

I am now not quite at the 80% point in writing the third book in the Mary McCarthy: Shapechanger trilogy.  Mary has built a research facility just outside Pittsburgh. She has hired almost a hundred people to run it. The first task is to build an airplane which is a compendium of all the aeronautical research discovered and tested in Europe. In her timeline heavier-than-air vehicles have been…

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PROGRESS made on SHAPECHANGER'S DESTINY

PROGRESS made on SHAPECHANGER’S DESTINY

I thought I’d let anyone interested know that work has been paused on the last fifth of the final book of the Mary McCarthy: Shapechanger trilogy. This was because of a plot problem. Not that I’ve been completely halted. I turned to work on the third novelette about Amelia Earhart as a Star Guardian while my subconscious was working on the Shapechanger book problem. Then two days ago as I was…

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Back to work on SHAPECHANGER'S DESTINY

Back to work on SHAPECHANGER’S DESTINY

I’ve not been working on my latest book for the past six weeks. That time has been taken up with finding a new home; the oldest one has become too expensive. And prepping for a move in several ways such as getting rid of lots of stuff I no longer need. And moving. And settling in, which included getting a new bed, the older one being too big for my cozier space. Finally, I’m back at work. On the…

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SHAPECHANGER'S DESTINY 70% along

SHAPECHANGER’S DESTINY 70% along

I just passed the 70% mark toward a projected 100,000 words in the last book of the trilogy called MARY MCARTHY: SHAPECHANGER. Here’s the latest cover for the book. Click images to read the first few pages and to buy the books.

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SHAPECHANGER'S DESTINY 60% along

SHAPECHANGER’S DESTINY 60% along

I just passed the 60% mark toward a projected 100,000 words in the last book of the trilogy called MARY MCARTHY: SHAPECHANGER. To celebrate and urge me on I created a cover for the book. For the curious readers of the previous two books right now she is in Pittsburgh in 1880 and about to meet 45-year old Andrew Carnegie and hobnob with the three (or four) Mellons, 34-year old George Westinghouse,…

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SHAPECHANGER'S DESTINY progress report

SHAPECHANGER’S DESTINY progress report

The skeletons of enough scenes to fill a couple of chapters wrote themselves as I gradually came awake this morning. By lunchtime I should have done a draft of the middle of the final book in the Mary McCarthy trilogy. UPDATE A day later: I’m working on the second chapter now. Mary is in America and riding west on a train to Pittsburgh. In the Shapechanger universe that city is home to some of…

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THE THRICE-DEAD GIRL is now available

THE THRICE-DEAD GIRL is now available

THE THRICE-DEAD GIRL tells the story of Alice Willoughby, an immortal shapechanger. She has lived more than 400 years as many people, including a German soldier, a conquering African empress, and a Chinese artist and counselor to the immortal empress of China.

Her body completely destroyed in a fire while rescuing people from death, years later she awakes inside her mother and helps her mother…

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