• 13:33 The leaves on my street are starting to change color. #
• 20:03 I’m cutting out the yoke for the wood witch’s shoulders. #
• 20:07 That went faster than I thought. Now, I’ll sand the sucker to get rid of the copious amounts of splinters. #
• 20:18 Moving on to installing the shoulder-yoke to the ribs and “spine.” #
• 20:41 Why can I only find one c-clamp? We had five on Friday. The drawer of clamps contains a wine opener. Is this a hint? #
• 21:02 All right, so shoulders and rib/spine assembly is in the vise. I’m now cutting a piece of basswood into the hip plate and grip. #
• 21:20 Finished the hip plate and grip. It’s comfie. Next up, checking the shoulders to see if they’re dry. If so, then I’ll install the abdomen. #

I’m delighted that “Ginger Stuyvesant and the Case of the Haunted Nursery” is going to appear in Talebones #38, tentatively scheduled for Spring 2009.  This will be my second time in Talebones, which is one of my favorite magazines. Seriously, if you’re only going to subscribe to one magazine (besides Shimmer) I highly recommend Talebones.

Here’s a teaser:

A liveried manservant waited by the front stairs of Fairbairn Hall as if he expected to take the reins of a horse. Ginger stopped her roadster next to him, shaking her head. These Brits had such queer, old-fashioned ideas.

She hopped out of her car, tossing her cloche on the front seat. With any luck, the hat had controlled the worst of the damage to her hair on the drive up from London.

The front door of the manor house flung open. In a flurry of crepe chiffon, Lucy Rhodes hurried down the stairs. “Ginger, darling! Thank heavens you’ve come.” Even in the daylight, circles of fear rippled through her aura.