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January
6
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Skirmish, and the story so far

Posted in DAW, Essalieyan, grovelling apology.

First, noting the tags, I want to apol­o­gize for a number of things. I did not intend to write a series of books that would break in the middle this way. What kind of an idiot writes a series that requires another entire series to be read in the middle? Appar­ently, me. Had I real­ized, when I finished Hidden City, that there would be three books that would cover one arc, I would have called the series some­thing else, and had one “early years” trilogy. I like to believe that I learn from my mistakes. I promise that I will never make this one again. It didn’t occur to me, while writing Hidden City, that people who hadn’t read The Sun Sword would actu­ally be reading these books. I am enor­mously grateful … Continue reading →

November
15
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Final Skirmish Cover

Posted in Books, DAW, Essalieyan.

I am hip-deep in revi­sions — which is better than the chin-deep I was a week ago. When I am writing, and writing is going (rela­tively) well, I tend to be on-line more; I’ll tweet or I’ll post. When revi­sions are prob­lem­atic, they eat my brain, and I tend to disap­pear. I’m sorry =/. But mail arrived from DAW which I wanted to share here: the final version of the Skir­mish cover. The novel is slated for January 2012 release in hard­cover, and I will – when revi­sions on Peril are done – begin work on a ‘story so far’, some­thing I haven’t done before. I’ll post that some­where on the site as the date approaches. Without further comment:  (Actu­ally, there is further comment, sadly. I can’t adjust the image in Word­Press at the moment, so the … Continue reading →

September
4
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State of the Writing, September 2011

Posted in DAW, Elantra, Essalieyan, Luna, Queen of the Dead, writing.

I’ve been revising Silence, the first of the DAW Sagara trilogy now called The Queen of the Dead. It has now returned to my long-suffering editor at DAW. While working on the revi­sion, however, I have also been writing. Cast in Peril is almost finished. Which is good, because it is due Soon. I have author copies of Cast in Ruin, and author copies of the mass market of Harvest Moon, which contains my 39,600k word novella, “Cast in Moon­light” (yes, it’s still a novella; it hasn’t broken the 40k word mark which would put it in short novel terri­tory). These go along with the author copies of the mass market versions of Cast in Fury and Cast in Silence, but without toe stub­bage. … Continue reading →

August
4
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More news

Posted in DAW, The Dead, Audio books, Cast.

I have just finished speaking with Khris­tine Hvam Kies, who is the narrator for the Cast novels in audio book. Or at least the narrator for the first one. So: people who were wondering who the narrator is, it’s her :). We had a long discus­sion about pronun­ci­a­tion of names, and the tonal quality of the various char­ac­ters and their speech, so I’m looking forward to the results. Memory of Stone has been proofed and the entire set of six stories and intro­duc­tions should be typeset within the next ten days. At which point, I will finally have a page count total, and after that, a cover for a print-on-demand version (page count equalling spine width, without which a cover can’t be final­ized), which has been … Continue reading →

July
25
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Bits and pieces of news

Posted in Appearances, Cast, DAW, ebooks, Essalieyan, Luna.

I’ve been informed by DAW that my DAW back­list — the eight books that comprise The Sacred Hunt and The Sun Sword — should be trick­ling into the ebook chan­nels in four weeks. They were total conver­sions, in that they had to be scanned from paper copies. This means that all of my novels to date will be avail­able as ebooks. Hunt­brother was on Barnes and Noble as of last night. Echoes which was sent by Smash­words in theory on the same day still hasn’t appeared. On the other hand, Echoes is avail­able at Kobo​.com, but Hunt­brother isn’t. The contracts for the audio versions of the first three Cast novels have been sent, so it looks like the first five novels will be avail­able … Continue reading →