It's been a while since I wrote "Mr Lye's Laundry of Doom". At the time it first appeared, the Lair Legion was starting to worry about rumours of some nasties called the Hellraisers, Nats had been betrayed by Ruby Waver, Hatman was broken-hearted over her cousin Sorceress. and Xander the Improbable was playing some kind of machiavellian long game (okay, that last one could be at almost any time in our history).

In the last few months I've been rewriting some of my older material for a wider audience. A lot of my stories on this board can be "de-Parodyverse-d" fairly easily, especially the Mumphrey and Vinnie de Soth material. I've substituted different characters for those who don't "belong to me" and mostly shifted the action across the pond to the UK, which I know better and can write with more accuracy.

Sitting on my hard drive right now are two completed novels. SIR MUMPHREY WILTON AND THE LOST CITY OF MYSTERY is a substantial expansion and reworking of Mumph's World War II adventures with the charming Miss Canterbury, and is ready to go to the publisher as soon as I have time to package it off (we also have to agree the right deal, which is where the delay comes).

THE TRANSDIMENSIONAL TRANSPORT COMPANY reworks another of the storylines I first explored here at the PVB, featuring new characters in the niches of some of the PVB ones and renaming others. I've had some really helpful input from Al B. and Vizh on this one (they've both read and commented on the manuscript). Again ready to go, probably three months or so after the Mumph one through the same publication route.

I've also got a LOT of Vinnie De Soth stuff, perhaps 30% reused from PV originals, the rest all-new. I'd like to establish Mumph and the TTC team before putting Vinnie into a novel or anthology, but I've dipped my toe into the supernatural corner of what Al B. called "the Watsarverse" by publishing a revised version of "The Laundry of Doom" in the magazine WONDERLUST #12.



An online version of the Magazine as a whole is available here. My story is available in .pdf format from Mr Lye's Laundry of Doom. Note that's a very slightly different version to the one in the magazine - this is the writer's cut.

I hope any of you still around out there enjoy the story.

HH