Paksworld

Baen Books will re-issue the original three books with new covers to coordinate with the Del Rey release of Oath of Fealty.    And let me say right now that this is a very generous (and all too rare) example of cooperation by a former publisher.   Three cheers for Baen, not only for publishing these books when I was a raw unknown newbie, but for keeping them in print, and for agreeing to repackage them in 2010.  Hip, hip, hooray! (x 3)

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Did I ever mention, in Sheepfarmer’s Daughter, how many sons and daughters the Count of Andressat had or their names or ages?   I know the Company met one of them at/near one of the Andressat forts, but I can’t be sure more info wasn’t given another time.

It’s suddenly become important.

There’s a chapter in Book Two that is Not Right.   Now usually at this point in a project, I know if something isn’t right, and why it’s not right, and thus how to fix it and make it right.

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The growing tip of the story is alive and moving in the third book.   At the moment, it’s growing with a chapter in each of several  viewpoints.   There’s Arcolin having breakfast in camp, about to confront some annoyed gnomes, and Dorrin watching the children learning to make pastry, and Andressat about to make a very important announcement to his family.   I’m not sure what Kieri’s doing, because I’m not sure the end of the second book won’t change by the time I finish the revisions of it.

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Yesterday I finally (!) got the copy edits boxed up, taped up, and ready to go when (out of the blue, literally) a storm landed on top of us and for over an hour we had lightning, wind, and (wonderfully) rain.  The power flickered on and off and I declined to go out in it, risking the manuscript, until things settled down, which they finally did.   Then I drove the 20-something miles to the Kinko’s/FedEx place and handed over the box to the nice fellow keeping the doors open until closing time, and drove back home, lighter in heart and pocket both.  (You really don’t want to know what it costs to send over 850 pages of paper ‘overnight’ to New York City from central Texas…)

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