Thank you to everyone who has chosen to follow A Place to Run Free. I’m stunned that seven people have decided to follow this story so far. I’ve added a second chapter, in which Jake finds himself pulled from the water into a very different world than the one he left.

I was fully prepared to be discouraged when no one paid the slightest attention to Jake’s journey through Belindanatha (The Place Where We Run Free in the language-if you can even call it that-of the pets who have gone ahead of us to the other side). Knowing that even one person is interested enough to follow the story means a lot to me. Thank you again. I’ll work hard to bring Jake’s story to (after)life.

Three followers and an actual order! Thanks to my legions of followers. (Hey, if Walt Whitman was a universe who contained multitudes, then my three followers can each be a separate legion.) 

I just put up Chapter Three, but I think it might have ended up being tacked on to the end of Chapter Two. Which is where it will end up anyway, so it’s actually rather convenient. I’m supposed to say "Things are progressing very well", but that would probably be an exaggeration. On the plus side, there’s an entire finished manuscript,  so Globe isn’t technically vaporware. It’s just that the novel itself is lacking in anything that could be favorably compared to a workable plot. There’s also the tiny, miniscule problem of characters behaving badly without anyone knowing their motivations for doing so. But those are things that can be improved with a little revision.

That’s where the magic happens, or so I’m told.

Thanks for having a look at Globe!