I suggested last week I might have a release date for my novel Legion by this week’s update. I don’t. Sorry. I should know better by now than to create arbitrary self-imposed deadlines. They just make you look foolish when you miss them.

So what’s the holdup? I hit a roadblock. A section near the end that just isn’t reading the way I want it to read. And after banging my head against the wall for almost two weeks I finally took the advice I’m so quick to give to others.

When a writer thinks they’ve screwed something up, there’s a good chance they have. But it’s seldom in the place where they’re looking. The answer is go backwards. Almost invariably, the screwup happened earlier than you think. I proved it right once again.

But once found, you have to correct not only it, but everything it screwed up downstream. That’s what I’m working through now. It’s added a couple of weeks to the process, but it’s a much stronger story for it. I’m really excited for you to read it.

So I don’t have a release date for Legion to announce, but I do have an announcement. I'm guessing the big graphic at the top probably tipped you off to that, huh?

Next week’s newsletter will contain a link to my latest novella, Transcription: A Tale of Cosmic Horror. It’s yours free just for being a subscriber to this newsletter.

But that also means this is the last week you can download Fireflies for free. So if you haven’t gotten it yet, go do it now before it moves to Kindle Unlimited.
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Lastly, I’ve got a little plug. Some of you may know I’m an alumnus of Amazon’s now departed Kindle Vella. Vella was where I first published fiction (I was publishing comic books for twenty-five years before that) and where the confidence to publish more blossomed. And while I don’t foresee a return to serial fiction for me, many of my friends from those Vella days are back at it over at https://lanternserials.com/​

There looks to be some great stuff there. If serial fiction is your thing, please check it out.
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Thanks and I’ll see you next week.

Barry Gregory​
09/06/2026
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