Paksworld

Location:   Valdaire, an expensive inn, private dining room.

“And so it is, ” she said, sitting back and folding her hands on the table.  “You are the man I thought you were, once I saw past my own ambition and my own losses.  Friends?”

“Always,” Arcolin said.  “Unless of course we’re hired by enemies, but even then–”

“We have the Code, and we are content, are we not?”

“We are content,” Arcolin said.

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Anyone care to guess the identity of the lady, and the former relationship, if any?

On the bright side of the page:  my new editor is my oldest editor, Betsy Mitchell, who guided the original Paksenarrion books through the publishing maze and taught me a lot along the way.   I could not have found a better editor for this project than Betsy.  She was in on Paks’s world from the first day the manuscript crossed her desk, and you can be assured that she will hold my feet to the fire to make these books the best they can be.

Also good news:  I’ve been cleared to share more and longer snippets with you.  Some of those will also be posted on the  Paksworld website.

With that in mind, I’ll try to post a snippet later today.

We hope Oath of Fealty will make it into the spring list in 2010–nothing’s set in stone there–and when I have a firm release date, I’ll post it here and on the Paksworld website.