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Monthly Archives: December 2017

Posted in writing, chapters, Essalieyan.

I’ve been going back and forth with myself (and possibly fret­ting at other people in my house­hold who were foolish enough to vacate the room after the first sentence). About what, you ask? About posting a preview chapter – in this case, the prologue – of War. I haven’t had the revi­sion discus­sion with my editor yet; I hope to do that after the holiday break. So the fret­ting is mostly whether or not what I post will survive in the published book. I mean, it’s not much of a preview if it doesn’t actu­ally serve as a preview of the book itself. It’s kind of a hopeful preview, but uncer­tainty abounds. Since the book is very very long in its current state, there are words that might not survive to reach … Continue reading 

Posted in Cast, Elantra, writing, chapters.

To those who cele­brate, Happy Holi­days! I have been writing, but at the moment, have very little to show for it; my short Severn story is now 28k words and not finished. I hope to finish it before the New Year, but in the frenetic, panicked busy work of holiday prepa­ra­tions, I am not sure how feasible this is. Chapter one of Cast in Decep­tion is here: Cast in Decep­tion 01. Re: audio­book versions: there appears to be a phys­ical box of 13 CDs, but the down­load­able version doesn’t seem to be avail­able on iTunes yet, or rather, the link to it doesn’t seem to be avail­able there. I’ll update those links when we’re closer to pub date. So the audio­book links look slightly different: … Continue reading