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Back to delinquent blogging, I'm afraid, as the NOVEL takes precedence, getting there getting there - The Riddle now completed and I guess the next thing I see is proofs, The Gift now officially out in the UK, and The Crow well and truly started. Just finshed my first week on it.

This is the book where all the big battles happen. I guess the surrounding material is appropriate.

My hero is based in part on the boy in Tarkovsky's film Ivan's Childhood. That is one of the more devastating anti-war films I have seen. (Another is the anime feature Grave of Fireflies.) If I can do that in this novel I will be satisfied.