Grey Wolf: Blog

I've hit this before; I failed to check adequately this time. The writing tool that I use sometimes doubles text during the export-for-posting process. I do check, and have caught it before, but missed it this time.

Thanks to everyone who let me know, and expect a note in addition to this blog post. I have quite a lot of SOL mail this morning, so it'll be a slow process.

Thanks to you all for reading!

Chapter 52 ends on a cliffhanger; therefore, chapter 53 will go out at the same time.

Happy Valentine's Day (when I write this, not when the postings go out) and/or Happy Presidents Day (when the postings go out).

I inadvertantly posted Chapter 50 - Storm Warnings, as Chapter 49. Chapter 49 is actually entitled 'Curiosity'.

It made no sense to remove a chapter that already had 1000 downloads. Therefore, I've reposted 49 correctly and also posted 50 correctly

Consider it a gift for Chinese New Year. Or what happens when we lose power for 24 hours and I'm scrambling to post and didn't get much sleep.

Steve's adventures in competitive Debate get going in earnest in chapter 47. The acronyms and other terms have been previously mentioned, but you shouldn't need to search for them. I've posted a side 'story' called 'Debate 101' that contains pretty much everything you need to know - and a bunch you don't - to understand the competitive Debate parts of the story. If you have questions or see omissions, please let me know. For every confused reader who reaches out, I imagine there are many more who aren't letting me know.

I've completed the repost of the first 31 chapters of the book plus chapter 35. At this time, everything past 35 is 'final'; however, there's always room for improvement and we're likely not done yet.

As noted before - there should be no need to go back and reread. Most of the changes are in writing style - I've reduced passive voice, clamped down on my tendency to overuse adverbs, and cleaned up a number of phrasings. There are a few minor new scenes, none of which change characters or plot in a way that should affect anything going forward, nor do I antipate any future changes of that sort. The story is the story; making the presentation of the story better is the goal.

If you do reread, let me know what you think. Also, whether you're a new reader or current reader, if you see typos, errors, anything like that, let me know and I'll get things fixed ASAP.

Many thanks to my editing and proofreading team. These updates are most notably the result of work by my editor Steve, who prompted many of the style improvements plus a number of improvements to characters, scenes, logical flow in a few places; too much to mention. Also, Gerrit caught a number of mistakes. The rest of the team are working on other sections yet to be published.

Thank you to everyone who's written to me and to everyone who's rated the story (even if it's not your cup of tea). I'm very happy that so many people are enjoying it and I hope that continues! In truth, we've only just begun the journey.