Well, it’s true – just last night I finished the last sentences of Scenes from a Life. Of course, that is far from saying it is finished… for one thing I have to do my own read-through and catch as many of the little slips and errors as I can find. And get some external advice on this as well. And finish the author’s notes at the back, which will have a mixture of historical and textual notes including a paragraph or two on how ancient Egyptians interpreted dreams.

So there’s plenty to do yet, but this seems to me to be a good milestone to celebrate.

Other news – the Orangeberry tour continues with a guest post at Quality Reads UK. This was a brief look at how to present religious institutions in fiction – lots of people go down the route of large temples, structured hierarchy etc, but I wanted to capture something much less formal that would operate on a local village scale. The next event on the book tour is on October 1st.

I’m hoping to do a short series of more historically-oriented blog posts in a while, partly prompted by the very short guest posts I wrote for the blog tour. So look out over the next month or so for some bits and pieces on life in the second millennium… BC.