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during the year 2007


"Somebody must keep the pot a-biling, Pip, or the pot won’t bile, don’t you know?"

                                                               —Charles Dickens, GREAT EXPECTATIONS



The Ups and Downs of Skeeter Kitefly

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
 

Skeeter Kitefly's Sugardaddy Confessor

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

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Skeeter Kitefly's
Titular Assets


COMPACTIFICATION
behind the scenes


RoBynne O'Ring's
GRUNTS OF
PASSION

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TO BE HONEST


FINE LINEAGE


MARAT À LA MODE


13 BLACK CATS
UNDER A LADDER


BAGELANNA


OLD LITTER

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About the Author

Contact the Author

Characters

Book Covers

Skeeterography

Etc.ography

 Site Map

Links

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OLD NEW WHAT'S

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002
 


 
bullet Query letter (for peddling 13 Black Cats Under a Ladder to literary agents or publishers) was completed December 15th

 
bullet After six months of cooldown, 13 Black Cats Under a Ladder was reviewed for errata from November 20th through December 4th; emendations reduced the total wordcount to 79,291

 
bullet Fine Lineage's Parts Two, Three, and Four got a final polish November 7-14

 
bullet Fine Lineage's Chapter S-4 ("Herbert Gustavus and His Wives") was uploaded,  October 28th to November 3rd

 
bullet Proofed and polished the first three chapters Fine Lineage's Part Four: There's Plenty of Good Smiths in the Sea; also added several vintage maps, plus many contributions from David Coulon Burns and Doris Smith Norman, October 15-24

 
bullet Proofed and polished Fine Lineage's Part Two: Burns(es) and Hedges(es) and Part Three: Pennsylvania Dutch (and Swiss) in full, October 10-14

 
bullet Fine Lineage's Chapters B-2 ("The Early Hedges") and B-5 ("The Ohio Hedges")were finished and uploaded on October 7th, along with an augmented Chapter
B-3 ("The Second of the Burnses")


 
bullet Fine Lineage's completed Chapter B-6 ("Jacob, Margaret, and the Dixons") was uploaded on September 26th

 
bullet After another all-day marathon, a complete version of Fine Lineage Chapter B-4 ("William III and Creative Jane") and a preliminary Chapter B-6 ("Jacob, Margaret, and the Dixons") were uploaded on September 20th

 
bullet In an all-day marathon session, complete versions of Fine Lineage Chapters B-1 ("The First of the Burnses") and B-3 ("The Second of the Burnses") were uploaded on September 15th

 
bullet Resumed work on Fine Lineage, beginning Part Two: Burns(es) and Hedges(es) with Chapter B-1, "The First of the Burnses," on September 9th

 
bullet Scrapped the 2004 layout for Marat à la Mode, replacing it with a streamlined single-page seven-chapter contents-table on August 1st

 
bullet Added Raymond Chandler's splitting-infinitives remark to the Index page,
July 29th


 
bullet Finished polishing Fine Lineage's Chapter P-5, "Upp from Ob," July 21-22; with some corrections added July 28-30—completing Part Three: Pennsylvania Dutch (and Swiss)

 
bullet Polished Fine Lineage's Chapters P-1 through P-4, and S1 through S-3, on
July 15th


 
bullet Added 1872 maps of Lancaster and York Counties to Fine Lineage, July 14th

 
bullet Completed Fine Lineage's Chapter P-5, "Upp from Ob," while adding new features and revisions to Chapters P-1, "Andrew Snyder, Aged 112 Years," and S-1, "Susannah, Husband & Sons": July 10-11

 
bullet Split Fine Lineage's Chapter P-4 in two: the new P-4, "Leah's Upps," followed by a new P-5, "Upp from Ob": July 6-8

 
bullet Wrote and uploaded Fine Lineage's Chapter P-4, "Upp from Ob," July 4-5

 
bullet Wrote and uploaded Fine Lineage's Chapters P-1, "Andrew Snyder, Aged 112 Years"; P-2, "Mary Ann and the W(e)ikels"; and P-3, "Samuel and Leah,"
June 22-30


 
bullet Wrote Fine Lineage's Chapters S-2, "Alonzo and Ellen," and S-3, "Five of Their Children," June 16-17

 
bullet Fine Lineage's Chapter S-1, "Susannah, Husband & Sons," was completed on
June 16th


 
bullet June 9th: after a four-year hiatus, work resumed on uploading Fine Lineage—this time starting on the "near" side, with Part Four: There's Lots of Good Smiths in the Sea (Chapter S-1: "Susannah, Husband & Sons")

 
bullet May 26th: proofing of 13 Black Cats Under a Ladder was completed—final text toting up to 79,362 words

 
bullet May 19th: final run-through of 13 Black Cats Under a Ladder was completed, and proofing of its printout begun

 
bullet May 13th: www.skeeterkitefly.com marked its fifth anniversary on the Internet

 
bullet April 23rd: final run-through of 13 Black Cats Under a Ladder began

 
bullet April 20th: polishing of 13 Black Cats Under a Ladder was completed—text reduced to 79,944 words

 
bullet Added a new Totally Erasable Haiku in honor of Totally Traci, March 16th

 
bullet March 9th: polishing of 13 Black Cats Under a Ladder began

 
bullet Updated the edited 13 Black Cats Under a Ladder excerpts on its Characters pages, January 13th thru March 6th

 
bullet March 5th: edit-boildown of 13 Black Cats Under a Ladder was completed—text reduced to 82,099 words

 
bullet January 1st: edit-boildown of 13 Black Cats Under a Ladder began


 

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