Trench-coats. Trench coats. Trenchcoats?

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Solid pro­gress today going over those new chapters. Some days aren’t that news­worthy: the most inter­est­ing thing to hap­pen today was a ten-minute search of vari­ous ref­er­ence texts to answer the ques­tion: ‘trench-coats’ or ‘trench coats’? Although I found the answer, I think it’s safe for me to leave you hanging over this one. You’ll simply have to buy the book to find out.

Mer­ci­fully, there’s big­ger news.

The Last Monk sec­tion of the site is now open, with a syn­op­sis, inform­a­tion about the char­ac­ters and the first extract from the book. I had prom­ised to put up a bit of the chapter I’m cur­rently work­ing on, but that chapter is full of spoil­ers, so instead I’ve cut together a bit of fun from the broad­cast of my real­ity TV show, the Rat Race.

I’m inter­ested in what you think, espe­cially about the syn­op­sis. It’s quite short: I’ve never writ­ten a blurb for a novel before, so I read the back cov­ers of a few paper­backs on my book­shelf, coun­ted the words of the ones I liked and wrote what I’d like to see on my own back cover. Is it too mys­ter­i­ous? Not mys­ter­i­ous enough? Would you read (and by ‘read’, of course I mean ‘buy’) a book with this blurb on the back? Add a com­ment in the TLM sec­tion if you please.

Finally, I should men­tion that soon you’ll be able to sign up for a reg­u­lar (pos­sibly weekly) email from this web­site. Tech­nical dif­fi­culties bey­ond our con­trol should be fixed in the next day or so.