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Belated End of Year Updatery

Dearly Beloved YOU PEOPLE:

Apologies for the dearth of blog posts. After my publicity blitz for the interview I wrote up for A Dribble of Ink, I was pretty tired of the-business-of-writing and wanted to get back to actual writing. Progress on SPELLBOUND is moving along. I hit the 36,000 word mark last night and feel good about the movement so far. Also, in a three day flash of inspiration, I knocked off a 12,000 words of a Secrete Project that is currently sitting in some alpha readers inboxes. We’ll see if it survives the criticism. Otherwise, December looks like a tough month to write, what with family and medical stuff coming to a head. But, still, I’m hopeful for more progress.

These days, my bloggerly powers seem to be falling out on this hierarchy: twitter > facebook > good reads > blog >> email >>> LJ crosspost (links to all available on the website’s front page) . Lately, I’ve become especially enamored of Good Reads and the community there. There’s a nice application for facebook. If you’re keen to share your thoughts about books, highly recommend checking it out.

That just about does it for general news. Let’s move on to the specifics.

New Publication Dates: Last month Borders called up Tor to say that they loved SPELLWRIGHT and wanted to move it back so as to keep it from competition with another epic fantasy. I don’t know what that other epic fantasy was, or why they didn’t move it back, but it pays to be nice, so I went along. Here are the present publications dates as far as I know

• US & Canada: Tor, March 2^nd, 2010
• Australia & New Zealand: Voyager, March 3rd, 2010
• UK & Remaining Commonwealth: Voyager, August 10^th, 2010
• Germany: Klett-Cotta, Autumn 2010
• Holland: Luitingh-Sijthoff, Autumn 2010

Book Launch Events Changed: I’ve been wooing local indie book stores. They’ve all been very gracious to me. I was sorry to have to go to them hat in hand and ask for dates to be moved. But, booksellers are some of the nicest people around, and we have a few shinny new dates. Here they are.

• 19 March 7PM Kepler’s Books Launch Party, Menlo Park, CA introduction by my mentor Dr. Abraham Verghese!
• 27 March 3PM Borderlands Books Reading and Signing, San Francisco, CA
• Late March,* Book’s Inc Mountain View, Reading and Signing, Mountain View, CA
• Late March,* Clayton Books Reading and Signing, Clayton (East Bay), CA

*We’re going back and forth about the exact date. Will update when it’s set.

ENDOSYMBIONT eligible for a Nebula Award. If you’re a member of SFWA, please feel free to nominate the work. You can read a free copy here and find more Nebula-eligible work edited by JJ Adams here.