Paksworld

Where I am, that is, it’s two minutes past midnight.   (And now I’m supposed to go to sleep…!!!  Like that’s going to happen before I get past the it’s here, it’s here!! buzz.)

Outside, the leopard frogs in the water garden are making their low-pitched mating calls, and a cool breeze is blowing in the window beside me.   There’s a gecko on the  window-screen hoping some moth will come to the light and become dinner.    The wind in the trees is has changed its sound because the trees are beginning to leaf out and also have seeds (oak pollen’s high right now but doesn’t bother me.)   The frogs just stopped calling…I suspect something’s out there near the pond (most likely cat or raccoon–we have both around at night.)

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The first arrivals I heard of were actually last week, in Sweden and then in The Netherlands.   But several more showed up today, including one in my state, Texas (S.Z.  in Houston emailed  that he’d bought one in a bookstore.)   By authorial decree (picture me holding up a fancy scroll and reading from it)  I hereby declare that arrival notices are not spoilers, even though they may add to the frustration of those who haven’t yet received their copy.

That’s selfish, by the way, because I want to hear more about where the books are, and report the distribution stuff to my agent.  So if you don’t want to, don’t, but if you do, you’ll be contributing to the knowledge base.

Since everyone appears to be enjoying the background material (I wasn’t sure you would),  and the tractor isn’t here yet, I’ll throw in some more tidbits to tide you over until tomorrow.   Or the next day.  Nothing should be spoilerish for Kings or the books following…some outcropped in the original books and some didn’t.   (And I don’t promise that there’s nothing new in background that might outcrop in this book or the next.)

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