Tara Maya's Tales

It's not unreasonable to assume that anything which has taken too long already will never be completed at all. This is certainly the point of view of my children regarding my progress on my main series The Unfinished Song. I can see their point of view; after all, I've been working on this story for longer than they've been alive. They have cheerfully told me that they expect the completion of my epic around the same year we establish a colony on Mars. A colleague of mine also used me as an example of what NOT to do as a writer. She explained that I'd taken so long to finish my series, that although I'd had an audience once, it had frittered away and no one was interested any more. Despite that, the greatest journey is finished only step after step, whether the steps are slow or not, and whether or not the traveller becomes frequently lost or lodged for a long time elsewhere. So although I've also started (and yes, even completed) other series since I started Th...

 I've been going through the comments left on the blog to delete spam and moderate everything else. It's quite humbling to see the number of remarks that amount to, "When is the next book out?" "You disappeared," "I looked for information and it seemed you fell off the face of the Earth." Um. Sorry. I wish I had a good excuse, like, "Yeah, I went to the beach on Beltane Eve, when the veil between the worlds was thin, accidentally fell through a Gate Between the Worlds and landed in a mystic Sphere, where I had to battle Ice Giants and Winter Elves..." But no. The truth is, that, cat-like, I became distracted by random things, like red spots on the wall, ladybugs, bits of string and my own tail. Homeschooling the kids, studying philosophy and writing my own starting from the metaphysics on up, gardening, researching biology and physics for a hard science fiction series set a billion years in the future, writing STRAT Book II, designing the...