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It's been a while since High School French class but it comes in handy to have a wife with a degree in that lovely language.

Looks like some publicity is starting up across the waters in preparation for Lamentation's French debut.  You can see a bit of that here and here on French publisher Bragelonne's blog. In other news, the Holidays are upon us and I'm taking some time off starting tomorrow.  I'll be working on copyedits for Antiphon (which arrived on my porch Friday) and will be working ...

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I'm honored and humbled to see Lamentation and Canticle on Paul Goat Allen's list of the Best SF/F of 2009 over here and to see both books also nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy over here.

I'm very pleased that these first two novels of mine have done so well in the world. And in 2010, we'll see how they do in a few other languages.

Thanks to all who've had a hand in this. I hope you'll keep reading!

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Another interview up right over here.

I really liked the questions that the lobster and the canary came up with.

And I'm looking forward to their answer to MY question!

As a matter of fact, I wouldn't mind hearing some of YOUR answers to that question, too.

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Yep, I spent yesterday FINALLY cleaning out my den. It's been a Churning Waste years in the making. It's an easy place to stack things up -- all those things you don't want to deal with at the moment but you'll get to them soon if only you had a place a bit out of sight where you can put them until.... Well, you know the drill, I'm sure.

Add two babies to the mix and it gets even harder to tackle.

So now it's been restored to a space I can work in without feeling pressed by chaos and clutter ...

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Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!

My most typical dial-setting in life is gratitude for lots of reasons. It was not always so. And for many reasons, Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday.

My parents split up when I was four and somehow my Dad won Thanksgiving in the divorce. So each year, he bundled us up and drove us six hours to Lewiston, ID, where my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins all resided and a family feast ensued the likes of which I've not seen elsewhere. In a rather...

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Yep. It's been a while.

So what can I say quickly?

The Canticle tour is nearly wrapped. I've hopes of hitting Bellingham still in January but nothing's confirmed. Canyon Way Bookstore in Newport on Saturday November 21 (at 2pm) is the next stop. We'll be there with the Itty-Bitties.

I'm taking notes on Requiem now and just had a lovely refresher over here on 3 Act Dramatic Structure from a man whose TV writing I've watched quite a lot of. I like the 3 Act Structure and endeavor to use it. ...

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So last night at the Mysterious Galaxy signing, nestled between Amazing Korean Food and getting my @ss handed to me in a Scrabble Duel with the First Captain of my Gypsy Fans, I learned something interesting.

Seems there's been some debate, even on Wiki, about whether The Psalms of Isaak is five books or seven books.  Heh.

About a week ago, something I wrote here ended up in a blog under the tag American Author Ken Scholes Nearly Finished with Antiphon, so that means folks must be reading.  So...

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Good morning world.  I'll be quick only because I have a breakfast appointment soonish.

The convention is going Very Well Indeed.  I can't count how many people (some of you reading this, I suspect) who've come up and asked for me to sign books.  My reading Thursday may be the best attended ever -- some folks had to sit on the floor.  I read "One Small Step" in honor of my nephew Andrew, took some questions, hung out and chatted after.

It's been a blur of handshakes and saying thank you to peop...

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Yep, today I meet Kate Elliott for the second time.  We met in passing at Denvention and I feel already like I've known her a goodly while.  We spent some pleasant time in email and on the phone while doing our guest blogs at Babel Clash and I really respect her approach to writing and her twin-wrangling experience.  So today, we have our first road trip when I pick her up in Portland and we head north to Seattle.

I'll be on the road from today forward -- all stops noted on the website appeara...

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Just a quick announcement that I'll be answering questions and joining in the discussions of CANTICLE and the Psalms of Isaak over here at the Fantasy and Science Fiction Book Club at Barnes and Noble.  I'm there until 10/26.  Come on by.  I'd particularly love it if some of you who are close to the series (first readers, etc) would drop by as well, time-permitting, to talk about your experience with the books.  The folks there are really great.  I had a blast when I was there for...

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