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April
13
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State of the Writer, April 2012

Posted in DAW, Queen of the Dead, writing.

Writing was severely trun­cated for about ten days while I and a strep bug had a heated battle over who was in charge of my throat and ears. I won. I fell behind in, oh, every­thing, while I was sick. I have an on-sale date for Cast in Peril, as the sell sheets arrived at the store while I was sick. The date is September 25, 2012. I’m waiting copy-edits and line-edits, but for the moment, the book is out of my hands. Touch, the sequel to Silence, is possibly the most diffi­cult book I’ve ever attempted to write, which, given Silence was one of the easiest, is respon­sible for the loss of great clods of hair. Some­times books surprise me. My new web-site is almost ready to … Continue reading →

February
19
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Silence, cover

Posted in DAW, Queen of the Dead.

Silence, the first book in the Queen of the Dead trilogy, will be published in hard­cover in May, 2012. In any prac­tical sense, this means the book will be avail­able in North America some­time at the end of April, 2012. People have asked me what it’s about; some have assumed because of the cover, that it’s a para­normal romance. It is para­normal, but for reasons that are entirely in char­acter, it’s not a romance — and I am really hoping that this does not disap­point people =/. The cover flap is a bit of a spoiler, IMHO. So if you hate spoilers, and you want to read this book, you’re prob­ably better off not reading it. Emma Hall is a high school student whose first (and only) boyfriend died in … Continue reading →

February
16
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Quick, quick update

Posted in DAW, ebooks, Essalieyan, grovelling apology.

I have just had word from DAW about Riven Shield: THE RIVEN SHIELD will be put out for distri­b­u­tion Friday, so that should start appearing at vendors in the next ten days or so. As I’ve mentioned previ­ously, DAW, while being distrib­uted by one of the ‘Big Six’, is actu­ally a small, privately owned publisher, with the atten­dant number of staff. Getting new books into produc­tion, cata­logues, and stores eats up about 140% of their time, and the other 10% (because no one expects to work in publishing at less than 60 hours a week) is left for things like digi­tizing the back­list. Hunter’s Oath and Hunter’s Death have started to appear as ebooks in the wild. Riven Shield should join them soon, … Continue reading →

February
14
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State of the Writer, February 2012 edition

Posted in Audio books, DAW, Elantra, Luna, writing.

First: Joey Shoji has mentioned here and else­where that there’s a cover for Silence posted else­where on-line, but only in thumb-nail. I will be doing a post — and uploading the cover image — later this week; possibly later today, depending on how the writing goes. And now onto the report: Cast in Peril is off to my editor at Luna; I finished and submitted it late last night. Peril was diffi­cult for me, in part because I real­ized at about 130k words that there was no way the events in the West March were going to be resolved in one book unless I threw away most of the 130k words I’d written by that point – because, well, there weren’t nearly enough words left. Unfor­tu­nately, most of those words are plot, and … Continue reading →

January
10
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Skirmish Summary, part 2 of part 3, and a note about the differences between reading and writing

Posted in Books, DAW, Essalieyan.

This is the final part of the summary of the events of The Sun Sword: Skir­mish Summary 03.b. There are — as I think Michael pointed out in the previous thread — events that I didn’t mention, in part because it would add enor­mously to the length of the summary, and if I hit 60k words, it pushes the meaning of the word “summary”. It prob­ably wouldn’t surprise anyone, but it also wouldn’t be finished until next month. I think the summary contains the back­story neces­sary to under­stand what’s happening now in Skir­mish, but if there are points that are confusing, this is the post to ask ques­tions in. I will try to answer them as they come up. I also want to add some­thing here. I did have a spoiler thread for … Continue reading →