· Writing updates
The long room took nine drafts
The opening chapter of The Shooter was rewritten nine times before it stopped explaining itself.
Journal
Notes from the desk
Essays on craft, research and the slow making of the books.
· Research
Research notes: living in cold orbit
Three weeks of reading rotation-habitat engineering so that one paragraph could sound inevitable.
· Deleted scenes
A deleted scene from Book One
Isabeau Cray once had a brother. He survived four drafts.