I try to put these up a week after a book has been released, but I was so focused on trying to finish Cast in Eternity that this did not happen. So, late, but: this is a discussion thread meant entirely for people who are not me to discuss Sword & Shadow. As the title suggests, it’s a spoiler thread, and while I ask people not to spoil a book in the main publication day thread, I’m obviously not going to ask people not to spoil things in this one :). DO NOT READ if you haven’t read the book, unless you don’t mind spoilers.
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Category Archives: Elantra
Posted in Cast, Elantra, grovelling apology.
Well, I had hoped to have good news — and may have good news in the not too distant future — but. I mentioned that a miscommunication meant that my deadline had been shortened, and spent all of February pushing to write more words than I normally write. Towards the end of February, my brain … ran out of good words, and so I had garbage words and had to go back and uproot and revise while looking at looming deadline approaching like – as I mentioned – a train, while I was on the tracks. It’s why I can’t generally write faster. I can do it for desperate, emergencies, but I can’t continue at that pace because I run out of good words, and I have to then take time away from writing for that well to refill — so on … Continue reading
Posted in Elantra, Publication, Severn.
It’s pub day for Sword and Shadow, the second of the Severn novels! Links to various retailers are on the book page on the link above :). If you find the book in the wild, send me a picture! (Forbidden Planet in the UK has signed copies — by book plate. BakkaPhoenix, the store at which I still work part-time, will have signed books, but if you want the book personalized, it’s easier for me to do that because I’m in the store weekly.) I am being crushed by a deadline that is looming like a locomotive toward a person tied to the tracks, but this is the part that makes it worthwhile – knowing that I’ll finish and I’ll have a book out that I can finally share with people.
As Elizabeth G reminded me in my last State of the Author post, it is in fact January, which is the month before February, which is the publication month for Sword and Shadow. While I knew on some level it was January, the lead in to February, I … somehow failed to make the connection >.<. I therefore have a first chapter and an updated home page. The first chapter can be found here (although all preview chapters are also linked to their individual book/bibliography pages, for future reference). And now I will crawl back under my rock, taking my laptop with me because deadlines are tighter than I thought they were by about a month, which is still doable, but. I swear my brain has become jello during … Continue reading
Posted in Audio books, Cast, Elantra, Essalieyan, writing.
Happy (very late) New Year! I survived Christmas stress. I’m pretty certain the immediate family survived my Christmas stress as well >.>. I admit that I was taken by surprise, because in general I would not be considered an optimistic person by nature, and as I mentioned elsewhere, I had not realized just how much I had been looking forward to a “normal” christmas, until Omicron hit and that went right out the window. But! After just over a week of writing holiday, I found my writing feet again, and have been getting myself back on track. First: Sea of Sorrows has finally made it to audible.com. I’ve updated the link on the bibliography page. This is the first time I’ve done things on my own, so I have no idea whether or … Continue reading
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