The Aviators

I haven't posted anything lately. Over the last few days I have been concentrating on completing my book, 'The Aviators'. I have now completed the final line edit. I may have missed a few errors, but I can't bring myself to go through that again.
That allow me to move on. The next task is to format the book for printing and find a cover artist.

Writing again

Right at the start of the lockdown, I decided to use this time to complete my novel. Then my laptop froze up. I tried to continue, using my Chromebook. But as everyone who has used a Chromebook will know, the word-processing software is very basic. It's acceptable for everyday work, but I wanted to complete a draft that was up to professional standards. I could not take my old laptop to a repair shop. The only option seemed to be to buy a new laptop.
One side effect of the lockdown was that the hotels I planned to visit in April and May had returned their deposits. So I had an unexpected healthy bank balance. (I would have preferred to go to the Eastercon and Satellite conventions, but there you go.)
When my new laptop arrived, it took a day to set it up. It took another day to obtain internet access. but now I am ready to go. I have the word-processing software I need to format my novel.

Short story

Back in November, I saw a facebook page from two editors requesting contributions to a short story collection on the theme of 'magical schools'. I was, at that time, writing a novel about a society of magicians so I thought I could use a theme from that novel to provide a short story.
My story, about an adolescent girl in a school for magic, was accepted for publication. The story collection will be published next month. In the meantime, the editors have published a web page.
This is the link:

https://www.superversivesf.com/fantasticschools/2020/04/02/announcing-fantastic-schools-1-2/

I hope you find it interesting.

Lost documents

I have suffered a minor disaster. My laptop has frozen. When I turn it on, all I get is a blank screen. All of my files are in there, but I cannot get at them. And, in this lockdown, I cannot take it to a repair shop.
Fortunately, I had backed up all of my files a few days ago, so only a few days' work has been lost.
I had bought a Chromebook to serve as a backup. The challenge now is to learn how to read and edit my draft, using the Chromebook's very basic word processor.