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I'm 46, Married with two sons. This blog will document my attempt to get my children's novel published.
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Editing update

Posted by Russell Sanderson on Saturday, March 21, 2015, In : Writing update 
The editing continues apace, with all of the additions to the story now in place and (hopefully) seamlessly worked into the narrative.  I was hoping the new parts would fit as at least one of them was already planned for book two, so I'd been laying a few clues already - overall I'm quite pleased with them.

Now I need to reduce the word count by about 4000, as putting in the new stuff has pushed the book up by that much (originally 5000, but I've cut out some of it already.)  I also know I nee...
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It's been a while....

Posted by Russell Sanderson on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, In : Short Stories 
Well things are still rumbling on behind the scenes, unfortunately nothing I can share publicly - which makes updating a blog about my progress a little problematic.

In the meantime, I thought some people might be interested in a couple of short stories I wrote a while back in response to prompts on a writing group.  Neither is from Pandora Wolfe's universe.  One is something I thought make a decent little picture book, if I could find an illustrator.  The other is a new take on an old story.

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