So:

I got the middle act of In Their Highnesses' Clandestine Corps up just in time to hear from Equestria Daily about the first act. The pre-reader had some concerns about a few of the liberties I'd taken with strict English grammar, and after pointing them out quite politely, he or she informed me that I had one strike and that I should "revise wisely before resubmitting."

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I've just:

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So let's see:

In non-Pony news, I've got a story that'll be printed next month in volume 27 of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword & Sorceress anthology, and one of the other authors involved, Jonathan Moeller, is conducting interviews with as many of us as wanted to do one. He just posted mine yesterday, and you can read it here if you're interested.

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I have no idea:

How much money it would take to hire Andrea Libman, a jazz orchestra, and a recording studio, but at random intervals all this past year, my brain coughs up the idea that the world in general really needs to hear Fluttershy singing this arrangement of this song.

Mike

Starting into the last chapter:

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Folks:

The sinus infection I've had the past week-and-a-half has got me running at about three-quarter speed, and while I'm still hoping to have chapter seven of "Infinite Pinkies" up on Friday, I figured I might as well drop a note here in case things don't work out as planned.

Mike

Over in the comment stream:

For An Infinite Number of Pinkies, Siarnaq21 asked why I was using the word "ev'ry" in the regular narration instead of the word "every."

A simple enough question, but when I started to write an answer, well, one thought led to another, then to another, then to another, then down an absolute cascade that ended up being this essay.

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Most of the writing I do:

     Is largely unrelated to Ponies.  The new illustrated edition of my 1998 novel The Blood Jaguar, for instance, has a large cast of talking animal characters, but not a single pony.

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