I've been busy! Well, no news there...
How about The Book? You will have noticed that publication was delayed from October or November to 8 December. The reason has nothing to do with the content of the book itself; that was ready many months ago. No, as I wrote earlier, the reason is far beyond the publisher's or my control. Political unrest in the Red Sea means that shipping companies may prefer the long route around Africa to travel from India to Europe, meaning from the printer to the publisher. The present date of December 8th is unfortunately not completely certain for the same reason. (If things do go wrong, this won't be the last update before publication.)
The publisher is Crowood Press in the UK. If you are not in the UK, you can still order the book through internet booksellers and probably also directly from the Publisher.
Anyway, I made a short video to help attract attention to the book; here it is. Feel free to link to the video on this blog or to a better resolution version on YouTube, or the one on Instagram!
What else was I busy with? Well, those microdocumentaries I am making are very time-consuming because they involve a lot of programming. I chose a sandy environment for the next documentary, so the beasties therefore needed to leave prints in the sand. That involved modifications of the terrain in the 3D rendering programming, and of course the various coordinate systems of the terrain and the rest of the imaginary world did not match up, which is something you only find out about the hard way.
I am also busy with a completely different art project: I draw views of the city of Leiden in The Netherlands, where I live, in a variant of the style that was first labelled 'klare lijn' in Dutch and later 'ligne claire' in French (think Tintin). I do not know whether the name 'clear line' has caught on in English yet. I am preparing work for an art market next Saturday and for an exposition in 'Galerie Zone' in Leiden during the month of January 2026. If you are curious what sidetracked me from spending more time on Furaha, take a look at my drawing website here; it is in Dutch only because I only sell in The Netherlands at present (the words 'Lijn en licht' mean 'line and light').
So that's what I am busy with! I do have some nice posts planned, one about a nice magazine about speculative biology, two about French books, and one more about which kinds of animals may and may not develop colour-changing skin. The basic science on the latter subject proves difficult to find, but I will get there.
