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I’ve been slicing Talyn into manageable bites — a 250,000 word novel requires considerable slicing, but I’ve managed to get the thing down to size. Here’s the breakdown.
209 words per page
250,000 words due
8592 words done
241408 words remaining
1200 pages total
10 pages per scene, 4 scenes per chapter
120 scenes
30 chapters
30 days set aside to revise completed […]
It isn’t the sort of news I can discuss in detail, but I have now had a major hardcover publisher express interest in Midnight Rain as a mainstream release; it’s also with four other houses. When I have something solid I’ll pass the details on. Meantime, however, I’m very excited, but trying […]
:: celebrating ::
Tomorrow I print, the next day I mail. In the meantime, I’m going to get into that line-for-scene thing for Talyn.
For the time being I’ll keep comments on this weblog open because some of you requested that I add them a few years ago and you’re still here, and because a number of you have interesting things to say and I am interested in hearing them. Instead of turning off the commenting feature, which […]
I’ve been plugging away on editor-requested revisions for the better part of the month, and I’m finally down to the last new scene that I have to write (and in fact when I quit today I was halfway through it). After completing it, I have two more scenes total to revise — I think […]
Well, Talyn and The Book to Be Named Later are both official. Got the contracts from Tor via my agent yesterday, and spent a great deal of time going over them, making sure I understood them. Robin did a terrific job of negotiating them. And this morning I sat and signed the […]
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Every once in a while, working your way through a revision, you’ll notice that you’ve reused a phrase two or three times, or, if you really weren’t careful, more. In Gods Old and Dark, I had six — count ‘em, six — instances of ’sad smiles’, which has to be a recent record for […]
I’m about to the end of the revisions for Gods Old and Dark — at least that’s what the ever-shrinking pile of paper to my left would attest. I’m doing a new scene right at the moment, setting up Raymond Smetty and Louise Tate for their eventual just desserts. (I left their fate […]
