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 … Continue reading →
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 to stay calm.
:: 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. … Continue reading →
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 regret to admit was my … Continue reading →
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 I’ll be able to finish the … Continue reading →
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 contracts, packaged them up, and got them ready … Continue reading →
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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 pounding a phrase into the ground. … Continue reading →
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 hanging in the first version, and my … Continue reading →