2013 YA gaslamp fantasy, first of a pair though it stands alone. Emilie is fleeing from her guardians when she stows away on the wrong ship, and finds herself part of an expedition to the world within the world…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string searching and sequence analysis. (Note that this ends today.)
2013 Regency romance novella. Hecuba Jones is stealing back paintings that were to be her inheritance, sold by her uncle. But the younger brother of the Earl catches her… vt Color Me Bad.
In 2024 I went to fewer conventions but got to play a bit more at home.
In 2024 I read 186 books (most novel-length, a few separate novellas and short stories); after a strong start to the year I slowed down a lot later, for no obvious reason.
A friend likes to sum up his year in a set number of words, and I copy this fine idea. "Think of it as a short and un-boastful summary of the year, which nobody is expected to understand all of."