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As most of you know, when I’m not out fighting crime in Gotham in the dark of night I work as a mild-mannered yet shockingly good-looking and charming editor of military history books (or something like that). I love my day job and am endlessly chuffed (that’s Britishese for happy/thrilled/overjoyed) that I get to work with some amazing veterans, historians, and journalists. So chuffed, in fact, that I want to show off some of the latest books I’ve published.

I’ve built models since I was a kid and it’s a favorite hobby of mine, but this is several orders of magnitude beyond anything I’ve ever attempted! Just stunning. A fully functioning airport in miniature.

I filmed my video interview at S&S’s Studio 4 today. Apparently, I’m a natural. I think what it really is is that I spend most of my time alone editing and writing so when I finally get around other people I’m like a puppy in a window barking and wagging his tail at the people on the other side 🙂 They’re aiming to have it out by the middle of October. As soon as they do I’ll post a link.

I do, although until the last year or so, I was never great at actually following through on them. At some point I finally decided to take my lists more seriously, and also to create lists that were actually doable. Gone are the days when I’d write stuff like “finish the novel” and instead have been replaced by “finish that scene.” Now that I’ve got a handle on making these lists and checking things off as I complete them, I’ve even started assigning time frames for my tasks. This might sound silly or unnecessary to some of you, but my life-style has been one of essentially excessive freedom for the last few years, and as marvelous as that sounds, too much freedom is another way of saying not enough structure. So I’m building up the structure around me, setting up waypoints and markers throughout my day that take the place of the structure I’d have if I commuted to an office. I used to rebel at this, but now I welcome it.

Good grief, I think I’m growing up 🙂