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February
1
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State of the Author February 2018, with bonus Cast reissues

Posted in Cast, Essalieyan, writing, Shane Rebenschied, Mira.

January was the month in which I vowed I would write the Severn short story that has been owed since, oh, March of last year. However, at 35k words and chapter seven, I real­ized that this was not actu­ally even a long novella – it’s a novel as it currently stands. So, that is now being discussed with publisher, because: novel. (I’m sorry, Melissa T_T) I have started the second short story I owe from the same period. At the moment, however, I have confi­dence that this time it will be short, and regard­less, length is less of an issue because it doesn’t run afoul of option clauses. I think. (For the record, it’s a short story that takes place in the universe of The Augus­tine Painters and The Colours of … Continue reading →

January
23
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Cast in Deception Release Day!

Posted in Audio books, ebooks, Elantra, Mira.

I thought today was Monday. While telling someone that release day was tomorrow, I real­ized that tomorrow was actu­ally today, January 23rd, 2018. That’s what January has been like, so far… Cast in Decep­tion is now out in the wild. It is avail­able in ebook and in audio­book, and Khris­tine Vham is the narrator for the latter (I’m very, very happy about this, and some­times feel I should nail her feet to the studio floor so she will always be the narrator – and this would, of course, be bad of me).

November
7
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Cover: Cast in Deception

Posted in Elantra, Shane Rebenschied, Mira.

Many of you have already seen the cover for Cast in Decep­tion in the wild. The artist is, once again, the amazing Shane Reben­schied; the art director is the equally talented Kath­leen Oudit. This is the full cover, with back blurb: *** In the good news depart­ment: Mira is re-issuing Cast in Shadow and Cast in Court­light, to coin­cide with the release of Cast in Decep­tion. They’ll be in trade paper­back, with slightly updated covers (fonts, name place­ment, things like that). *** I have finished page proofs; I haven’t finished the book review column – but I find reading and thinking about books far, far less disrup­tive to writing than copy-edits or page proofs. Some writers can do both — write first, revise, proof-read — and I envy them enor­mously. For me, the … Continue reading →

October
25
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Book day! Cast in Flight

Posted in Cast, Elantra, Mira.

Today, Cast in Flight offi­cially launches. It’s avail­able in ebook, audio­book and trade paper­back. I’m a little bit behind, which I know will come as a shock to all of you. I am working on (not finished) War and the next Cast novel, which is absent a reason­able title — the working title is Cast in Treachery, but I’m not certain it works. So “Next Cast Novel” is how I will prob­ably refer to it until I have a title that does. I kind of crashed at the end of the Summer, and had zero brain left for anything like produc­tive writing. I always post sample chap­ters — but this time around, it totally fell off the table, swept out of my head by the lack of func­tional brain. I’m really sorry =/. When the brain goes … Continue reading →

November
24
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CAST IN HONOR release day

Posted in Books, Elantra, writing, Mira.

Today is release day for Cast in Honor. For some reason, I thought it was the 27th, which is not today. This is the state of the writer’s brain =/. This isn’t a spoiler thread, as the book just came out — I’ll start a sepa­rate spoiler post in a few days. In other news, I have finished the first draft of Grave. I am working on War and Cast in Flight, and neither of those books is trying to murder me, for which I am profoundly grateful. I have just received page proofs for the mass market of Oracle, and am revising Grave for submis­sion to my long-suffering (more long-suffering in my case than any author should have any right to expect) editor, Sheila Gilbert at DAW. And yes, I know I never did … Continue reading →