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Storm and I are writng a Western for Howard, who is a fan of ours. (When you are 90 and one of our biggest fans, you get to ask us to write cross-genre.) The plan is that we're going to have a Lulu book printed up and ready to give to him for his birthday in march. Imryne, i'm afraid, is going to take a back seat for a month or so while I write the Western. I don't have a title yet, unfortunately, but I'm working on it.

So here is the first chapter.

( 'Leta stood in the doorway of the house, shading her eyes...' )

Character sketch for something Storm and I are starting. This one jumps the priority queue, since we have a deadline. It's the first straight historical we'll have written (and it's not really even all that historical, honestly, we're monkeying around with a few details.)

Note that there's some antiquated words and attitudes in this one; we're dealing with racial prejudice during the Civil War era.

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