State of the World Address

A few things are happening on the trilogy front, so I thought I'd update y'all with the skinny.

1) My trilogy sold to French publishers Bragelonne (who amongst other SF/F luminaries,  publish NYT #1 bestseller [huge grats] Pat Rothfuss). Bragelonne offered on books 2 & 3 sight unseen, which makes me feel pretty good about book #1. So yeah, I'll officially be published in a non-English speaking country. It'll be interesting translating my psuedo Jap-lish into French (I only know how to swear in French).

2) My editor's notes have come back on STORMDANCER, and I'm plunging back into the breach this weekend. The vast majority of suggestions were of the "GIVE US MOARR" variety – more detail, more world-building. I chopped a bunch of detail out of the ms in order to get to a certain pivotal point in the narrative by page 50 (mainly for the benefits of literary agents, who often request the first 50) and it feels nice to be told "leave nothing on the editing room floor". So yeah, really looking forward to getting back into this sandbox I've made and building a few more castles

3) Book 2 is naturally on hold until STORMDANCER is complete, but I'm sitting about 80k and almost at the end of Act 2. It's feeling really good, but it'll be helpful to spend a month off from it, finish STORMDANCER and then come back with fresh eyes. My beautiful bride, as always, is serving as Beta-in-Chief and Culler of All Things Lamesauce.

4) Still trying to think of a series title. It's hard. Harder than resisting the urge to finish this post with a witticism about other hard things…

…Jesus, mind out of the gutter, peoples.