I’ve been working away at editing “The Alchemist of Liberty” and composing a two new scenes to be added to Tactics. Things are progressing a little faster than I had anticipated. Which means that I might be done with the third draft of Tactics by the end of October.

I met with Paul T. (my first alpha-reader for Tactics) last Friday after work and talked about, among other things, Tactics and “The Shaper’s Daughter”. He hasn’t read the “The Shaper’s Daughter” since I extracted it from the second draft of Tactics and polished it up with intent of turning it into a short story. In the process of converting it into a short story I added a frame to it (which some people have liked, and some haven’t), and I had Paul read just Prologue / Epilogue frame. I was gratified when he decided that he had to reread the story on the basis of the framing.