Blade of Empire Delivered to Tor

[merlinscribe]

Hail Gentiles All:

It is my honor and my pleasure to announce to you that Dragon Prophecy Book II: Blade of Empire has been delivered to Tor Books. At the moment it is 161,000 words long. We'll see how many of those words make it into the finished book.

In other news, I'm 20,000 words into Scourge of Fate (aka Dragon Prophecy III) so you shouldn't have quite as long a wait for the next one.

Comments

[merlinscribe]

The Platonic ideal of a book production schedule is twelve months from delivery to publication, but like most ideal things, it is rarely seen. If the author is famous and the book is eagerly-awaited, it can be much shorter: I believe one of the Harry Potter books was published six weeks after Rowling turned it in. If the author is *cough* less famous, it can take longer: Crown of Vengeance sat on its editor's desk for over a year before the mechanism of reading and editing and publishing it began.

So while I don't *know*, I will guess that it won't be out earlier than this fall, or later than next fall. When I have more information, I will post it here.

[(Anonymous)]

I do certainly hope it comes out as early as possible! Since it came out Crown of Vengeance has become one of my favorite books of all time, even more so than the rest of the Obsidian universe. I also really enjoyed it on audiobook, since it had fantastic narration. Do you as the author have any influence over the audiobooks? I assume it is mostly the publisher. I would love to see the same narrators come back and do Blade of Empire if at all possible. Also, do you know what the general turn-around from print to audiobook is?

[merlinscribe]

As the author, I have no influence over the audiobooks. I know the same company will be doing the audiobook of BLADE, but I don't know if they'll bring back the same voice-actors. If you liked the cast, write to the audiobook publishers and tell them so. It helps more than you know.

As for publication, they can start recording as soon as there's a final draft, so it will probably come out very close to the book publication.