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This is just a progress report, no new book yet.

The second volume of I’m The Beautiful But Evil Space Princess Who Rules A Galactic Empire, But Really Wants To Leave People Ruthlessly Alone! (or I’m The BBESP for short) is really chugging along; 7 chapters of a projected 12 are complete and the action…well…I don’t really write action, but the intrigue is definitely building, the Mages whom Alice and crew run into are definitely weird, and it seems like a lot of people are coming for the weird title but sticking around for the libertarian space regency romance.  (If I am to believe the reviews and the things people are telling me in private.)

Seriously hoping this one will be done before Christmas, and then the third (which will possibly be the last, or definitely will be before I go back to working on The Lion And The Logic) will come out sometime in February.  We’ll see.  Author is not responsible for sticking to timetables mapped out in advance…

OBTW, if you have read the first book…please go back and give it a star review on Amazon.  I’d greatly appreciate it and it does help with the completely-screwed Amazon algorithm.  Thanks!

Oh, and the cover for Volume 2 will look like this.

OK, so there’s a song, a church hymn more or less, in Chapter 2 of The Lion and the Darkness, right?  (Chapter 2 of the first half of the book, “The Martyr of Sardristra”.)

And there’s this new AI songwriting service called Suno.

And I might have fed the lyrics to it.

This can be blamed on Sarah Hoyt, who’s using Suno to do all kinds of songs for her new series (for which see below).

This site needs to be nuked from orbit.

As an aside, it was my pleasure to share a reading slot with Amy DuBoff at LibertyCon, a week ago last Saturday. She’s a very pleasant person (her husband is, too!) and from what she read of her work at that time, she seems to be an excellent writer. She doesn’t deserve this sort of treatment.

All you indies out there, be warned off The Book Boost Architect site.

(Original X link is https://x.com/RickPartlow66/status/1939513509106286827 ).

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