Book Recs and Links for Tuesday
Yesterday I finished going over the copyedit/proofs for The Serpent Sea. In some ways I'm used to being a working writer again who has deadlines and writes books that are actually published and gets paid and all that, but in other ways I'm still marveling that this is happening again. That I'm not stuck back in my career crash (2006-2010).
I started writing The Serpent Sea in 2008, after I finished The Cloud Roads, which at that time was still out making the lonely rounds of all the publishers who didn't want it. I finished it in 2009, when The Cloud Roads was still out making the lonely rounds of all the publishers who didn't want it. Both books sold around July 2010, and it still feels like a miracle.
I don't know if this is a small island in the ocean of crashing yet or not. I wrote another book during that time, Emilie and the Hollow World, a steampunkish fantasy YA which still hasn't sold, and cowrote an MG fantasy which still hasn't sold, and I have a proposal out for the third Cloud Roads book, which is 85% completed but not sold. So keep your fingers crossed for me.
Book recs:
The Sacred Band the last book in David Anthony Durham's epic fantasy Acacia trilogy comes out today. You can read the summary and reviews at the link above, and you should definitely check it out.
Kate Elliott has extras for Cold Fire, the second book in her Spiritwalker trilogy after Cold Magic. I'm reading Cold Fire now and really enjoying it.
Links:
Cynthia Leitich Smith has a report on the Austin Teen Book Festival
Writer Beware: The Agenda of "The Write Agenda"
TWA's real agenda is to harass, discredit, and intimidate just about anyone who speaks out about literary scams, or supports anti-scam activities. There are reports of boycott lists of authors who speak out about them, a fake cease and desist notice, and posting hundreds of one-star reviews on review sites like GoodReads, among other things.
I started writing The Serpent Sea in 2008, after I finished The Cloud Roads, which at that time was still out making the lonely rounds of all the publishers who didn't want it. I finished it in 2009, when The Cloud Roads was still out making the lonely rounds of all the publishers who didn't want it. Both books sold around July 2010, and it still feels like a miracle.
I don't know if this is a small island in the ocean of crashing yet or not. I wrote another book during that time, Emilie and the Hollow World, a steampunkish fantasy YA which still hasn't sold, and cowrote an MG fantasy which still hasn't sold, and I have a proposal out for the third Cloud Roads book, which is 85% completed but not sold. So keep your fingers crossed for me.
Book recs:
The Sacred Band the last book in David Anthony Durham's epic fantasy Acacia trilogy comes out today. You can read the summary and reviews at the link above, and you should definitely check it out.
Kate Elliott has extras for Cold Fire, the second book in her Spiritwalker trilogy after Cold Magic. I'm reading Cold Fire now and really enjoying it.
Links:
Cynthia Leitich Smith has a report on the Austin Teen Book Festival
Writer Beware: The Agenda of "The Write Agenda"
TWA's real agenda is to harass, discredit, and intimidate just about anyone who speaks out about literary scams, or supports anti-scam activities. There are reports of boycott lists of authors who speak out about them, a fake cease and desist notice, and posting hundreds of one-star reviews on review sites like GoodReads, among other things.
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