February ’25  First Tetralogy Update!  I have just finished updating the first of my series novels – a tetralogy – but not requiring many major re-writes in the four novels, just minor improvements.  So it went quite smoothly thanks to working out a method of using ‘Find-&-Replace’ for the text-to-html conversion procedure needed to build the eBook chapters.  I can insert « and » symbols to indicate start and end of paragraphs (needed for html) and include a simple line containing all characters that have to be specifically coded in html – like ‘curly quotes’ or accented letters, or sentence spacing that I prefer (because html closes all sentences up together tightly).  So my Vortex Evolution tetralogy has now been updated and is online for downloads.

January ’25  Even More:  Updating novel Cocoon Gambler (v3 now available for downloading) was another simple one.  Written between 2005 and 2011, it was set in that noughties era, and included analog video technology.  That has changed completely, but videotape cassettes were still fairly common then.  All I really had to do was update technical references to make it relevant for current readers, and I have learned from updating Archimedes and Flicker, so an update ritual is now in place to make the process easier.  When I get onto updating novels I wrote last century, though, that will demand more extensive work!
So far, the updating challenge has been less stressful than I had first imagined.

January ’25  More Updating:  Updating novel Flicker Dawn was MUCH simpler than The Archimedes Project, since it was written only a couple of years ago!  But it had a few little niggles that had been worrying me as I worked on Archimedes, and thinking about patching up date-related plot issues.  But it’s been useful to establish a ‘ritual’ for updating old books that I can now use to update many others!
Flicker Dawn (v4) is now available for downloading.

January ’25  Archimedes Update:  I write novels MUCH faster than I did when I first started in the 1980s – it has become a well-practiced procedure.  However, they still take a year or so, with writing, editing, coding, eBook making, proof-reading, website update...  With 18 novels completed, I do not expect to start a new one any time soon!  But I will revisit existing novels and update them to keep me busy.
I started writing novel The Archimedes Project in 2005, so the recent update to Revision #9 was fairly major, correcting story events that did not match actual global events in the near future (as it was in 2005).  But it is now done, and the updated eBook is now available for download.  Some of the novels I wrote last century have sequences and technical details that will have become dated in a similar fashion.  They will take longer to update, as parts of the story will need to be completely rewritten instead of just edited!