AND THERE WILL BE DRAGONS!
Dec. 20th, 2020 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merlinscribeLadies and Gentlemen, Brothers and Sisters, Comrades and Friends....
The book is finished.
It's done, complete, and as much of the story as fits into 200K words is told. I am now doing a last read-through, checking for glitches, making sure I've fixed everything my first readers pointed out, and all that sort of thing. I will be delivering it to Tor in January, since there is absolutely no reason to deliver anything in December, and then...
We wait.
Well, actually, *you* wait. *I* will be off writing another book set in the "One Dozen Daughters" universe, though not, alas, the sequel to "House of the Four Winds". The title is KINGDOM AND CROWN (at the moment) and it's set about two hundred years earlier.
The war is over. The Queen is dead. The Lord Protector who rules the land has outlawed magic. But the Queen's daughter has survived...
It should be fun. And at least I will stop thinking in Old Elvish for a while.
Everyone have a Joyous Solstice, Happy December, Glorious Sol Invictus, and suchlike. I will post updates when I get them, but based on past experience, there's going to be nothing much but the sound of keyboard clicks for several months to come.
Stay safe, everyone.
The book is finished.
It's done, complete, and as much of the story as fits into 200K words is told. I am now doing a last read-through, checking for glitches, making sure I've fixed everything my first readers pointed out, and all that sort of thing. I will be delivering it to Tor in January, since there is absolutely no reason to deliver anything in December, and then...
We wait.
Well, actually, *you* wait. *I* will be off writing another book set in the "One Dozen Daughters" universe, though not, alas, the sequel to "House of the Four Winds". The title is KINGDOM AND CROWN (at the moment) and it's set about two hundred years earlier.
The war is over. The Queen is dead. The Lord Protector who rules the land has outlawed magic. But the Queen's daughter has survived...
It should be fun. And at least I will stop thinking in Old Elvish for a while.
Everyone have a Joyous Solstice, Happy December, Glorious Sol Invictus, and suchlike. I will post updates when I get them, but based on past experience, there's going to be nothing much but the sound of keyboard clicks for several months to come.
Stay safe, everyone.
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Date: 2020-12-21 10:20 am (UTC)Looking forward to Kingdom and Crown. Little disappointed it is not a sequel to House of the Four Winds (Still the only pirate book I have read), but I would probably like it just as much. Do you think it is going to be a stand a lone book like Four Winds? Or part of a trilogy?
The Obsidian World is still my favorite. So hope you can still write in it.
Thank you for the update, made my day.
Yay!!
Date: 2020-12-22 05:39 pm (UTC)I think I said it before, but just in case, merry Christmas and happy new year!
So excited!
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Date: 2021-01-07 08:32 am (UTC)On wow!!
Date: 2021-01-24 06:03 am (UTC)Huzzah!!
Date: 2021-01-29 01:27 am (UTC)I'm going to go there
Date: 2021-02-09 09:04 pm (UTC)I am certain you get this sort of thing all the time, but I am going to be that guy today:
Any chance we can get a novel about Kellan in his later years? Sort of an Old Man Logan or Beowulf vs the Dragon type thing?
Perhaps it could include a trip to the Selkan lands, but that might be a bit TOO Beowulf.
Anyway. Wanted to ask. Looking forward to the Wings of Fate!
Re: I'm going to go there
Date: 2021-02-09 11:27 pm (UTC)Excited!!
Date: 2021-02-28 07:47 am (UTC)Yes!!
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