November 29th is publication day for Cast in Eternity!
…A day I had marked in my calendar as: “Optometrist appointment: 12:30” T_T. It’s been that kind of month.
Physical books have made it to the store at which I work, and ebooks — I think — went out at one minute after midnight. So, fingers crossed, any preorders have been met, and anyone who prefers physical books should be able to find it in stores. (As usual, the physical books have a much wider availability range, because the books have to get from a warehouse to all the corners of North America — or beyond! — before the 29th.)
Links for ebooks, audiobooks, etc. can be found on the book’s page (linked above). While I don’t link libraries, if budgets are tight, libraries should have the books and ebooks available as well.
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If I were organized, this post would have gone up at just after midnight. Instead I have been panic-focused, because the new Sagara novel is due in January and it is not finished yet. So last night’s thought was: how many words can I get written before aforementioned eye doctor appointment? Because I’m not going to get much written after. It should have been: publication day post, Michelle.
My manager offered me time off to reach my January deadline. Spontaneously.
In other circumstances, I would have asked for a few weeks off, but who asks for time off in DECEMBER in retail? So I didn’t. I have been a bit stressed about this deadline, though — I’d’ve made it with no problem and time to spare if I hadn’t started this book from the beginning six times. It’s just possible that she doesn’t enjoy working with me when I’m so overly focused on deadlines I have very little actual brain for anything else >.>.
(It’s hard to bake “give yourself time to be very wrong multiple times” into deadlines. It’s hard to plan for that. Books are not “just sit down at the computer and write” all of the time. Whenever I start something new, the hardest part is the beginning. Some beginnings — most of the CAST books — are fairly easy. I find the place to start. I start. I continue. One or two of the CAST books have required a couple of starts. This one — Shards of Glass — is new; it takes place in the Academia.)
Hunter’s Redoubt, the new West novel, is also not finished yet, although it is way closer. I thought I could get it finished by the end of November, but this was clearly overly optimistic; I lost a couple of days to an unfortunate logistical error, and had to backtrack and remove bad words before continuing forward. It is my hope that the finished book will be <300k words. That’s been a bit of a moving target since I started, sadly: I originally set my absolute upper limit at 275k words.
My write-to-length subconscious clearly has huge oppositional tendencies.
But that should come as very little surprise to most of you :).
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I picked up Cast in Eternity on Black Friday (a very kind B&N person pulled it for me from the back as it was a soft release) and i was enjoying its deliciousness all weekend. The kindle edition is now on my phone so i can steal minutes here and there from work to continue reading it and then I will get it in Audio so that I get to hear all the things I missed the first time around.
I love the Cast books so much and as well as the Severn books. I look forward to learning more about the Academia too