In recent days, some folks have noticed that I’ve been mentioning harpies on my Facebook page. I’m working on a new book, hence these little glimpses of the story. There will be more as I go along.

This morning I was looking over my blogroll, in particular one of the comic book blogs I read regularly, and ran across this:

This sort of thing can ruin my whole day.

For what it’s worth, I stopped reading The Unwritten a few years back. It’s not a bad book but just wasn’t my cup of tea. But it’s one people seem to like a lot.

Which makes my discovery this morning all the more irritating.

This all the time. I wish I could say I’m used to it. But now I’m torn: do I go back to the comic so I can be sure that the plans I’ve had for this new book don’t lead me down a similar path as what Mike Carey is doing . . . or do I let it go and trust the story I’ve been given?

At the end of the day, you have to trust the story.