'War' Is Over (Hope You Want It)
So, after many more years than it should have been, Locksmith's War is finally done. It clocks in at 91,943 words—shorter than either of the other two books. (There's no rule that says sequels have to be longer, after all.) It's also much more tightly paced. Is is everything I hoped it would be? Well, I was hoping the final fight scene would be a proper crescendo, greater even than the fight scene at the end of Locksmith's Journeys, which was sort of my zombie T-Rex (Dresden
R.I.P. to the man who taught me "Behind Every Art there is a Craft"
I decided I wouldn’t post again until I had news. Well, I have news. The first is a bit of writing I had to do earlier this month—my father’s obituary. (I wrote most of it. The funeral home did the part about the funeral arrangements and in-lieu-of-flowers.) You should read it before going on to the rest of this post. If you’re wondering what branch of mathematics his Ph.D. was in, so am I. I couldn’t find it on UMCP’s Web site. There doesn’t seem to be any kind of central da
