It turns out that Roz White may have been making things up. This is going to come as a relief to some of you – it certainly did for me. All those things she said about ghasts might not be true. I’m still not entirely clear if ghasts are the same as gaunts or, for that matter, what a lady ghast is.

However, if they aren’t a new kind of monster and we aren’t all at dire risk of dying horribly in new and even less familiar ways, that’s about as close to good news as we’re likely to get this week.

Also it turns out that I was entirely wrong about her being a blacksmith, for reasons that should be perfectly understandable, I think. It’s a mistake anyone could make. Especially if, like me, they’ve mostly been getting by on hairy coffee for the last week and haven’t actually slept since the previous full moon. Has anyone else done that? Or is that just a me-thing? Anyway, there’s a point at which the hairy coffee doesn’t merely keep you awake, it adds in whole extra periods of time that no one else experiences and this is where (so I am told) all my issues with ghasts and blacksmithing have come from.

Apparently Roz White makes things up, on purpose, to amuse other people. You can find The Forging of Lady Ghast over here – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forging-Lady-Ghast-Steam-Punk-Phantasy/dp/1717811094/ but I am led to believe it won’t guide you through the process of making a woman out of metal.