We brought the four-year-old, for added degrees of both joy and difficulty. It's been amazing and exhausting, and I both don't want it to end, and also very much want to creep into my office and get back to my words.

Six weeks, four countries, and The Isles of the Gods is officially toured. Back to Australia, back to my writing den, back to *touches earpiece* uh, cold, rainy winter, apparently. I'm not so sure about this new direction, guys.