Fantasy Opus - Chapter "I've lost count"

I'm now up to 65,000 words and the story is probably less than a third through. My current thinking is that it could well end up as a trilogy with each book at around 100,000 words. Well the Hobbit has 95,000 and the first Harry Potter book has 76,000 for a comparison.

I'd love to give out a few details but I can't think of anything that will not uncover the story. Here are a few cryptic clues.

The story contains:

• A creature from English folklore
• A creature from Eastern folklore
• Several human type creatures from European folklore (I'm for staying in by the way!)
• A place name inspired by a famous physicist (no really!)
• A mythical tree.

Zero Magenta

I've been asked a few times recently about releasing Zero Magenta in paperback. I'm seriously considering it. There's an Amazon service called Creatspace which makes it relatively painless. I've also been investigating cover art for both Zero Magenta and the new novels.

I have a short list of two cover artists I would like to use but they both seem to be ridiculously busy. Probably because they're very good.

I've decided to have another go at creating my own, using some much better stock images. I'll only use them if they turn out ok.

That's all for now.

John H.