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Monthly Archives: December 2018

Posted in writing.

Here it is: the cover for First­born. Art by Jody Lee. I don’t have the cover flat, so I don’t have the text/blurb yet; I think the amazon text is actu­ally cata­logue copy (the thing that gets shown to book­sellers). It’s Carver! Okay, now I’m going back to copy-edits T_T. 

Posted in DAW, Books, Cast.

This is tech­ni­cally the November edition, but I have been neck-deep in page proofs for First­born. Which were due today. November was actu­ally a really produc­tive writing month (until page proofs). I found the begin­ning of The Black Gauntlet, title entirely tenta­tive, and have one prologue and three chap­ters. I have more of the Severn book, but some changes from novella struc­ture were neces­sary. Not as many as I was afraid there would be – but to be fair, I was afraid I would have to ditch all 30k words, so. I have copy-edits for War incoming today, which will eat some writing time — but War is a June title. So: February 2019 and June 2019 for First­born and War. I made a comment over at Tor​.com, on a review of the new … Continue reading