Trader is Finished

Not in a bad way, mind you, but Book 1 has been officially completed (with the notable exception of the cover art... still).  And, where the original was merely 75,320 words with generally poor editing (my own fault), the updated version is at 83,456.  All that's left is the updated copyright.. and the cover art.

Momentous in any case, thusly freeing me up (theoretically, because I still have to work and lift heavy things in my not-so free time) for the unholy combination of Ariana and M^6.  

As always, though, I do have some progress to report on that, so if you're interested, here's a bit of an update:

Monster List (apart from the implied adventures…so NOTEABLE monster list):

The first monster (duh)

The ghost girl (dead house, the dust unmoved, the guy’s daughter haunting the place, he’d heard about it from the kids at school – he was a teacher, we really need to screen our clients, apparently)

Bloody Mary (watching candles burn away into torches)

The spider lady (moving wall of glossy black with thousands of red dots picked out in a strangely closely spaced pattern, a victim, the spider analogy, the half spider woman behind me with a body like pitted iron, kissing my neck, the shock, collapsing while marlin fought it, watching the wall break into millions of spiders, starting to wrap me up)

My Monster (safety under the blankets)
            The monster that conferred the power of fire to my sister (I can’t have it, bonded to a soul, and we have the same soul, come out in a split second that felt like forever inside, make references to waking up while dying in Cerberus, but mostly just dead bodies and a very confused looking robed and hooded figure) 

Lily the Lideric

The Twins (incubus and succubus)

The predations of the unknown in the street following (Whatever you do, stay in the light and DO NOT CLOSE YOUR EYES)

The hunting shadow in the graveyard
            The Labyrinth

Teasers and whatnot.  Time for bed, expect more soon!

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