AQATSA Update, No April Fools' Joke!

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I feel like staying off the Internet tomorrow. I know this makes me sound like a humorless grumpy-pants, but I hate April Fools' Day. Yes, it's just so cute when every web site covers their home page with monkeys, tells us they've been bought out by the Russian mafia, changes their color scheme to pink and chartreuse, announces that they've sold your personal information to a finance start-up company in Nigeria, or whatever other clever idea they come up with. Hah hah. So I have to spend all day going "WTF?" and then remembering "Oh yeah, it's April 1."

So anyway, I guarantee this post is 100% April Fools Free.


Current word count: 186,392.

Below is preliminary line art for the cover of Alexandra Quick and the Stars Above. I made a few change requests (like holding her wand in her right hand, and pointing out that Alexandra should be a little bit skinnier), but I like it and am looking forward to the full color painted version.

Comments

Re: Rhemus de excidio

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Gildas was no prophet. In his time, the Saxons were subdued. It was about 570, which is also his likely death date, that they started moving again, and conquered most of what is today southern England. The lands north of the Trent did not fall until 615, and Devon later still. Gildas lived in, and described, a world where the Saxons were defeated; if he proposed a crusade against them (using an anachronistic term), itr was because it was the only way he could see to unite the British kings. Plus, there is some indication that the British had already started to use Saxon mercenaries in their wars, which was one of the things that would eventually lead to Saxon triumph, and of course a crusade would change that.