There is an interview with me here at Chuck Wendig's Terrible Minds Blog. You will probably find out more about me than you want to know.
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The Serpent Sea also got listed here on Tor.com, as one of the staff picks at Bakka Phoenix, the big SF/F bookstore in Toronto. It's in very good company.
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I don't have much else to report. What I'm mostly doing is trying to figure out what book to write next. Plus trying to think of a title for the third Raksura book. Plus trying to finish up a prequel short story for The Cloud Roads about Chime.
Notes about buying stuff: Amazon and Barnes and Noble online seem to be having some sort of weird .10 increment price war over The Serpent Sea trade paperback. Right now B&N is winning at $9.29, so if you wanted to get it cheap, this might be a good time.
Also, my second Stargate Atlantis novel Entanglement is now being sold on the B&N Nook. It's been available on Kindle, but this is the first time I've seen it on Nook, and it's cheap. (I don't know if Reliquary will also be on Nook; I have no control over it so if you want it your best bet is to email the publisher and ask.)
Interview at Terrible Minds Blog
February 9th, 2012
2012-02-09 02:27 pm (UTC)
2012-02-09 02:56 pm (UTC)
2012-02-09 03:00 pm (UTC)
2012-02-09 03:29 pm (UTC)
Also, looking forward to Chime's prequel. I like him a lot. Do you have a place in mind to publish that, or does it just want to be written?
2012-02-09 06:16 pm (UTC)
2012-02-09 03:40 pm (UTC)
Terrifying story. eek.
2012-02-09 05:30 pm (UTC)
What I'm mostly doing is trying to figure out what book to write next.
Any chance of any more Ile-Rien books, now or ever? *bats eyelashes hopefully*
I thought what you said in the interview about them being kind of steampunky but before steampunk was popular was a very good point - I'd though that before myself, that the main reason they weren't more popular than they were was because they were a bit ahead of their time. So perhaps a return to that setting now that it's more of an established subgenre would gain more readers? Who might then in turn get interested in the earlier books, maybe leading to enough demand for them to be republished... OK, OK, I'll stop now. Really, this is not so much about markets and subgenres as it is about me wanting to read more Ile-Rien books. :-)
2012-02-09 08:33 pm (UTC)
The big thing is that I have to be excited about it, whatever it is. And the other thing is that there has to be a chance that somebody will want to publish it; with the Ile-Rien books, I'm not sure that would happen, especially since HarperCollins still has the trilogy.
2012-02-09 07:49 pm (UTC)
2012-02-10 09:59 am (UTC)
2012-02-10 05:38 pm (UTC)
2012-02-13 12:05 am (UTC)
Part of it is sheer greed for more of the world you've built. You always come up with amazing places that feel like they have a whole world of stories out there behind what we get to hear. I'm always left wanting to know more Ile-Rien history or Three Worlds biology. All my favorite authors leave me wanting more, but you definitely top the worldbuilding catagory.
2012-02-13 12:35 am (UTC)
I do the same thing with books I've been looking forward to. I always mean to try to make them last longer, and end up staying up late to finish them off.
2012-02-16 06:00 pm (UTC)