Paksworld

A moment of shameless self-promotion here:  Oath of Fealty has been nominated as one of the Goodreads books of the year in the Fantasy category.   That link should take you there, and  if so inclined you can vote for it.  Though I suspect some of you have already and that’s why it’s on the list.

Happy writer.  Happy, happy writer.  (bounce, bounce, bounce)

Pruning, re-ordering, and now gap-filling…chapters have numbers now, and are in what I believe (!) is the correct order, all 33 of them.    Some are much longer than others, and some of the very VERY long ones may be split.    Very short ones may be combined (if same POV and adjacent.)

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For the fact-finders among you…I need help!    I’ve misplaced my copy of the Deed (yet again!)  and thus can’t look this up.  In the Deed (I think…may also require access to the Gird & Luap books),  two gnome princedoms are mentioned.  One is Aldonfulk.  What is the other?   A third shows up in Book III, but I’m suddenly worried that I gave it the name of the second (which is in a different location.)

I can think of a couple of places to check:  Sheepfarmer’s  Daughter, when the troop is being taken south to Aarenis, and there’s a brief explanation of the geography and mention of the gnome princedoms on the north side of the Dwarfmounts.  And in Divided Allegiance,  when Paks & Co. rescue the gnome merchants from captivity.    There may be other locations, but I can’t think of them right now.   (How I wish I hadn’t lost the old reference notebooks!!)

Whatever the weather where you are, and your attitude about the holiday season…for me it means only three more months until Launch Month (not Launch Day, but Launch Month)  for Kings of the North.

It also means only one month left before turning in Book III, which is ambling along towards the version the editor sees, still untitled.  So unless there are major changes, I’ll be scarce on the blog while keeping the already abraded nose firmly on the relentlessly turning grindstone.

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