Anyway, I got about 10,000 words done on the U&F sequel. It's called Underwood and Flinch: Blood and Smoke. The title comes from a comment made by one of the new characters to Underwood. He knows something of vampires (unlike our hero) and he tells him: "You are man and beast; blood and smoke."
So far, all the action is in the Caribbean in the early 18th Century, the story picks up from where Underwood's origin tale left off in U&F 1. Here's a picture of me in our hotel room, hard at work (sort of).
Anyway, back home now, back to teaching English, and back also to chipping away at the U&F 1 edit. I've finished the audio-text matching and editing, and my wife is now proof-reading the text for gaffes (of which I'm sure there will be more than a few). I'll keep you posted on how it's going.
In other news, One Among the Sleepless, the original podcast, is now back online after a month of silence. You can now find it Archive.org. From here you can download it in individual episodes, or get the lot in one big zip bundle and drop them straight into your MP3 player.
Here's the link: http://archive.org/details/OneAmongTheSleepless
Glad you enjoyed your vacation while soaking up much appreciated sun rays however, unlike you, I only needed to book a trip on the wonderful world wide web to a destination of your blogspot to get my version of "sunshine in the middle of winter" re: beginnings of U&F the sequel. Here's to spontanious inspiration all the way from chilly Northern California!
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