SubPress to do Penric and the Shaman
I am pleased to report that Subterranean Press has offered for "Penric and the Shaman", to do a quality limited-edition hardcover chapbook like the one they just did for "Penric's Demon".
No, I don't have a pub date yet; the ink is barely dry on the contract. A year is a likely guess, this being paper publishing.
Ta, L.
No, I don't have a pub date yet; the ink is barely dry on the contract. A year is a likely guess, this being paper publishing.
Ta, L.
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Eleanor wrote: "Yay!!!Are they going to do a bigger print run this time?
(And is "Penric and the Shaman" going to come out in ebook first like the first Penric story, in which case perhaps there's a publicatio..."
"Penric and the Shaman" has been out as an e-book since Friday; see my prior blog posts. (Or one of our three e-book vendors.)
There may be a slightly bigger print run this round. Note that Amazon and Hugo's are still in-stock, as is Dreamhaven; I can't say about other booksellers.
Ta, L.
OMG I MUST BUY PENRIC AND THE SHAMAN.Thank you! :)
I know Amazon is in stock. Two of the local indie bookstores around here have said they can't get Penric's Demon from whatever distributor they're using. (One of them usually uses Baker & Taylor.) I ended up buying from Amazon after both bookstores waited several weeks to see if they could get it in stock. (I didn't try ordering at B&N but I notice they never seem to have any on hand.)
Since Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just checked Amazon's listing and now they are saying it is temporarily out of stock. If they try to go back to Subterranean to reorder they will be out of luck because Subterranean lists it as sold out from them. If you haven't gotten your copy yet, hurry to Uncle Hugo's or Dreamhaven because it looks like it's going fast! As well it should. We readers and fans know when we see a really really good story.Anne in Virginia
Anne wrote: "I just checked Amazon's listing and now they are saying it is temporarily out of stock. If they try to go back to Subterranean to reorder they will be out of luck because Subterranean lists it as s..."There may be other distributors who have cached a few, but it is a quite limited edition, so yeah, I expect it will sell out pretty soon.
Ta, L.
I read "Penric and the Shaman". Very cool! I like Penric and Des and the dogs and Oswyl's humanity. It was nice to finally get a good idea of the relative chronology of all the Five Gods stories, although that may be elsewhere also and I just missed it.
The first thing that I loved about "Penric and the Shaman " (first among many, I assure you) is that it reassured me about something that has is been bothering me since the end of the Hallowed Hunt. I've been so worried about poor Ingrey, cut off from his god that way, but the way they talk about shamans in the Weald in Penric's time implies that he may have had his spirit wolf removed by one. Yippee!
I also noticed and loved this. In fact, I am assuming also that Inglis kin Wolfcliff is related in some way (perhaps a direct decedent?) to Ingrey.
Jerri wrote: "I also noticed and loved this. In fact, I am assuming also that Inglis kin Wolfcliff is related in some way (perhaps a direct decedent?) to Ingrey."That is the implication, yes.
Ta, L.
Thank you. I have just finished my second reading of Penric and the Shaman, after re-reading The Hallowed Hunt and Penric's Demon after the first reading of the Shaman story. Parallel with that I listened to The Curse of Chalion from Audible, and have started Paladin of Souls in audio. I own most of your books in both eBook and audiobook, and enjoy reading sometimes and listening sometimes. The only one of the audiobooks that I don't enjoy is The Hallowed Hunt. That reader really got on my nerves. I hope to be able to add an audio version of Penric and the Shaman to my collection one of these days. Lloyd James who read the Curse of C did an absolutely fantastic job, even making it very clear when Caz was just thinking something to himself and when he was saying it out loud. A characteristic that many of your characters share. (Miles also has lots of unvoiced thoughts, and if there is one weakness of Grover G,'s reading of the Vorksogian books it is that if I hadn't read the books several times already before listening to them, I would have been confused about what was said out loud and what only to himself.)
I hope Subterranean uses the same illustrator as the previous book. It is, IMHO, one of the best covers of your work. Striking, intreging, illustrating a scene in the book well yet not giving away a major plot point.
Are they going to do a bigger print run this time?
(And is "Penric and the Shaman" going to come out in ebook first like the first Penric story, in which case perhaps there's a publication date for that?)