The Entropy Pump blog has posted a review of my first Archonate novel, Fools Errant:  ” It’s a sly and witty travelogue that sports a fool as the main character (thought not a foolish one) who, instead of seeing the wonders around him, looks at the world as something that is out to get or least annoy him.”

A fair summary of Filidor Vesh, at least at the start of the novel.  Here’s the first chapter.

A while back, I said here that I would be helpful if satisfied readers expressed themselves in the form of Amazon customer reviews.  The response has been very gratifying: reviews of Template, Hespira, and the short story collections 9 Tales of Henghis Hapthorn and The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories have been very supportive.

Those of us who do not sit high enough up the ladder in this business of fiction writing don’t get to meet all that many of our readers.  We don’t merit book tours or collect invitations to be Guest of Honor at a big con.  So when you care enough to send an email or to post a review somewhere, it helps.

As I usually respond to readers who email me:  I appreciate the encouragement.

It helps keep me productive, too.  I’ve sent another Raffalon story off to F&SF, and I’m working on another involving Erm Kaslo, the confidential op who first appeared in “And Then Some” in a recent Asimov’s.  I think Kaslo is going to be the first of my characters who actually goes through the universe’s wrenching transition from rationality to sympathetic association — or to use the vulgar term, magic.

My intent, as with the Guth Bandar stories that eventually became The Commons, is to write a Raffalon and a Kaslo novel in episodes, then string the elements together to make two ebooks.