Procrastinating for professionals

Or a post about why there isn't a post this week

We’ve got the builders in. Our house was built in 1910 and every few decades it needs some serious love and care, so we’re having a couple of roofs replaced and much of the place repointed. It’s noisy and dusty (a lot of the bricks are just crumbling away by now and they’re being replaced as well) but it’s already looking a lot better and we’re glad we’re doing it.

While the builders partially demolish the house around us, I am having a writing spurt on Killer Robot Ninja Sex Dolls. It is, by now on the borders of sanity, what with the LSD trippiness and the evil villain’s underground lair, alongside the titular robot sex dolls. I keep thinking it’s gone too far and then I remember the vampire nest under Brompton Cemetery, the werewolf locked up in the cellars under the House of Commons, and the human-animal mutants duking it out with a vampire in a secret military base off the M4 and I reckon that ‘too far’ was passed long ago. This book could just about be read as a stand-alone novel, but the Galbraith & Pole series has acquired a lot of back-story by now, so if you think that Killer Robot Ninja Sex Dolls could be your thing, you might like to start catching up on the books now. You can find details of them all on Amazon.

Anyway, all this is basically my excuse for no real post this week. If you want something more substantive next week, you need to write to me (in the comments, or on Substack ‘Notes’) and let me know which of my various interests (Georgian life, the Napoleonic Wars, Urban Fantasy, tango, whatever) does it for you.

There is a rumour that summer may be resumed next week. (I do hope so. I’m supposed to be spending Sunday afternoon dancing al fresco tango.) If it is, then do all enjoy the weather. And, if not, hide at home with a good book.

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