So, I've been absent without leave for over half a year. I'd be making my amends before a court martial except... looks around... I don't seem to have joined any military service. Ha! Slipped by on a technicality!

But I have recently been getting back on the tiger, and as a result, I actually have some words to go along with ChristheBlue's nifty new cover art he worked up for me:

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The Season 9 Bingo Writing Contest is finished. AFanofMostEverything took first place, you can see how everyone else did behind that link to Shrink Laureate's blog, along with all the bells and whistles. This isn't the first time I was involved in judging a contest, but it is the first time I've done fannish judging.

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totallynotabrony is, in a very real sense, the reason I write ponyfic. His service comedy We Rent The Night with its sardonic, sly, tricksy Lunar Guard ponies reminded me so strongly of Glen Cook's cynical military fantasies in their lighter moments, that it led directly to my writing a pastiche style crossover of The Black Company. He followed up that

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So today, I've got a one-shot for you all set in the same AU as Twilight In Plain Sight. Applejack, having volunteered for the Army on her graduation, has spent the last three years and change working for a living on the less kinetic end of the Big Stick. Except her big mouth and her stubborn insistence on honesty and straight dealing didn't really make for a smooth ride, and it's about to get bumpier.

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I'm still working on the sequel to Good Trooper Gilda, but while you're waiting, one of my editors wrote a one-shot set in one of the more excessively colorful episodes of the history of woeful Trottingham: Schooled In Warfare. Known during his lifetime as Grosvenor the Bold, today scholars are more inclined to use epithets such as 'The Unready', 'The Rash', or 'The Reckless'. His life spanned the Duchy of Trottingham's era

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And that's a wrap. It started out as an open-ended slice of life story, but quickly mutated into an adventure sort of thing. And now, with the Griffish Insurgency coming to an end, Gilda and her unicorn are moving on with life.

I've got some plans for a follow-up, but maybe not immediately. We'll see what pushes to the front of the line.

Some folks were asking for a new Those Who Ride chapter for Hearthswarming. Unfortunately, that story requires a certain submersed mind-set (deep in The Song of Ice and Fire lore and Dothraki conlang details) that I couldn't recover in time for an editable draft.

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Undome Tinwe is a writer who scratches a lot of my itches: linguistics, history, poetry, myth, and in a weird way, religion. He spent NaNoWriMo writing a historical romance about Sappho of Lesbos and Princess Luna: The Lesbian: One Hundred Nights. I'm not sure at what intervals he'll be releasing chapters, but from what Undome says, it's

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Winter is coming! Get out your team memorabilia, it's sportsball season! Some ponies talk about hoofball, or buckball, but for the real autumn sports fan, it has to be, hooves down, cloudball! A memory of the old days, when roving gangs of pegasi sold their weather services to the highest bidder, and many a team of weatherponies clashed with their rivals over a juicy farm-town's irrigation contracts!

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