I'd like a new brain, please; this one's used up

A brief break from typing to -- type.

Halcyon breezes wafted several items of interest into the Confusion Factory today.

First, six covers for the hardback Crystal Soldier, and handsome they are in person. Jela and the tree are loverly and the portrait of the authors on the flyleaf, taken by internationally known Swedish photographer Thuy Le, is quite something.

Also arriving, through the Magic of the Internet, news of an interview bearing on the Local Custom audiobook, in which Michael Shanks talks about the process of narrating an audiobook and how it differs from acting.

On the Sword of Orion front, one wishes that Erazias would get his story straight. I'm just sayin'...