For those who may be interested: Chapter Seven of "The Big Meow" is now posted for subscribers

[dianeduane]

Friends,

It's up at last.

There are a lot of places where this notification needs to be posted, and a lot of explanations and profound apologies to be made... but for the moment it just seems best to get the news out.

Chapter Seven is now available online for subscribers: it's linked to from the normal TBM subscriber gateway page. The same old username and password that worked for previous chapters will get you in. (If you can't find your login info, email me and I'll send it out to you pronto.) HTML and PDF versions are there right now --  the mobile .prc versions will go up in due course, as soon as we receive the conversions.

If you're not a subscriber, the chapter will go public on the 28th of the month. Look for the link to its gateway page in the left-hand menu at the project page at http://www.the-big-meow.com. (And for those of you who might feel inclined to subscribe, the subscription button is at the top of the left-hand column, along with info about what you get.)

Once again, I'm deeply sorry for the immense delay. I'm going back on the old one-chapter-per-three-weeks schedule: Chapter Eight will be going up in mid-August. Additionally, the book has become a couple of chapters longer in the course of being restructured -- check the project schedule for the anticipated posting dates.

Thanks again, everybody, so very much, for your patience during this past crazed and difficult year. More info shortly.

Comments

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

That was a marvelous chapter, well worth the wait—especially the tale of Aifheh and Sehau, which was truly touching and uplifting. I feel one of your greatest strengths as a writer is your ability to create mythologies for your societies that are evocative of the feel of those societies while at the same time being wonderful stories in and of themselves. That's one of the things that makes your Wizardry series so great, and probably a big reason that a lot of people are hoping and praying you'll finish the Door series so we can learn how it all comes out. :)

It's going to be hard waiting for the next chapter to come out.

[dduane.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks.

However, I think everybody who eventually reads it should congratulate me for not having certain deities stick their head down into the action through a hole in the ceiling. :)

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

You know, you really should write something tongue-in-cheek explaining the whole LOLcat phenomenon as the result of an Intervention by Arhu and Sif that didn't quite work out the way they intended. :)