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Sign of nearing release date: Del Rey have put the first chapter of Oath of Fealty up at their website. Enjoy!
I will be posting another largeish chunk on the Paksworld site when my web-guru and I can get this organized (but both of us are somewhat tied up right now…it may be a day or so.)
Comment by David — January 27, 2010 @ 1:02 pm
Yay!!!!!! Now to go read it.
Comment by elizabeth — January 27, 2010 @ 1:07 pm
Now there’s a reaction I like to see…thanks!
Comment by David — January 27, 2010 @ 1:12 pm
Well worth the wait. Now I only need to last another 50 days or so to read the whole book!!!!
Comment by Martin LaBar — January 27, 2010 @ 1:13 pm
Thanks! I note a couple of typos in the on-line chapter — no space between words. I’ll be glad to see the entire book.
Comment by Barb — January 27, 2010 @ 2:03 pm
Just read the chapter. Loud fangirl squeeee! (Goes off to re-read Paks now, humming happily.)
Comment by Jeff — January 27, 2010 @ 2:15 pm
Just read the excerpt. I remember you saying years ago that you wouldn’t be writing any more Paks books until she had another story to tell (that’s not quite what you said, but it’s the gist)
At any rate, I’m glad Paks had another story. This has alwasy been my favorite series of novels. The excerpt I read has only left me wanting more. March 15 can’t come qucickly enough. Thanks for this!
Comment by elizabeth — January 27, 2010 @ 3:10 pm
Jeff, this isn’t a Paks story–it’s not in her point-of-view, but about other people and events in that world. She’s there as a non-POV minor character sometimes, see through the eyes of others. A paladin’s intervention into events always means disruption…old patterns are changed. So this is about the changes that follow the Deed…because the Deed is only the beginning of a larger story (or, that’s what it feels like to me.)
I had originally intended to write Kieri Phelan’s story someday…but it’s turned out to be more than just his story–it keeps opening out on me.
Comment by Adam Baker — January 27, 2010 @ 4:25 pm
Woohoo!
Now Im not sure if I want to read it, or wait and savor it when I get my grubby hands on the pre-order that Im eagerly anticipating showing up in the mail, haha.
Comment by OtterB — January 27, 2010 @ 5:12 pm
Looking forward to this, big time.
Comment by elizabeth — January 27, 2010 @ 5:32 pm
For those of you noticing typos–I’m really stuck with something important today, so if you could contact Del Rey about those it would help. (Deadline and other stuff both.)
Comment by kyta — January 27, 2010 @ 5:55 pm
Fantastic! I’m particularly excited to see the overlap with the end of Oath of Gold, especially reactions when people find out about Arvid’s unexpected role in Paks’ escape (or do they?). Counting down the days until I can devour…er…read the whole thing (which, incidentally, will be far after most here since shipping to Morocco is quite a time-consuming prospect!). — dashes off to preorder, since she’s forgotten until now–
Comment by RichardB — January 27, 2010 @ 8:13 pm
Hurrah! That was a great read, and really motivated me to start re-reading the first three books in anticipation.
The only typos I saw were doubled or missing spaces, which I put down to bad HTML conversion, so I won’t report them unless m’lady says that they count.
Comment by elizabeth — January 27, 2010 @ 8:26 pm
I don’t know. I haven’t seen an ARC of the book, let alone the final version that’s coming, so I don’t know why there are problems…and to be honest, I’ve just glanced at it, because it’s been a day of Stuff. I didn’t read it with my Editor hat on.
I do know I’ve gotten comments back here and on LJ both saying it bothered some people. At least one has now reported it, so maybe they’ll fix it.
Comment by Adam Baker — January 27, 2010 @ 9:43 pm
Oh man! Oh man oh man oh man!!! haha
I couldnt take it anymore and had to go read it, and now I definitely cant wait to the big day!!
Only 48 days to go!!
Comment by Elentarien — January 28, 2010 @ 12:47 am
Woo. Tantalizing taste there. Makes me want more. (Although, what doesn’t? Even if I read the whole book I’d still cry more. lol)
This is not long after the Paks books end, I take it? It looks good. Although, I realized while reading it, I might end up wanting to read the Paks books again before reading these ones. To brush up.
I also noticed quite a few typos in there. As mentioned, mostly two words shoved together. Though in one case there were two paragraphs shoved together as well. I’d email Del Rey as you suggest, but I couldn’t find a contact email for them. I hope its just the online version, and not the book copy.
Comment by Adam Baker — January 28, 2010 @ 6:28 am
Elentarien, this first chapter actually takes place before the end of OoG. Paks agree’s to submit to the Liartians for 5 days and 5 nights, and it takes Sef 3 days to get from where he was at with Dorrins cohort, back to the stronghold to inform Arcolin as to whats happened. So if my guess on the timing is correct, that whole first chapter actually takes place while Paks is still being held.
Comment by elizabeth — January 28, 2010 @ 6:56 am
Not quite, Adam. You’re right that there’s an overlap, but not on how much.
The first section, in Verella, is the night Kieri is freed and then leaves for Lyonya. The next section, in the north, is seven days later…remember, someone had to ride from Verella to where Dorrin’s cohort was, at the south border of Kieri’s territory, and only then did Sef start for the stronghold. So it’s after Paks has been freed and is also headed east but before she catches up–three days before that battle in DEED. It was ~10 days (I don’t have the chart in front of me) from Kieri’s leaving Verella to the battle, and it took him a few more days to reach Chaya. Though his coronation is mentioned in DEED, it’s not in POV, so the real overlap is about 14-15 days, IIRC.
Dealing with slow data transmission (by foot or ahorse) is tricky for those of us now used to lightspeed communication. If, for instance, our POV character stayed in the same place, it would be another five days before he could possibly hear that Paks had been freed…another 12 or more days at least before he could hear that there’d been a battle.
This is why I draw a lot of charts…for the overlap part of this book, I had a day by day chart with calculations on who could know what from where each day. (And I still make mistakes sometimes!!)
I’d have hopped over the overlap if not that Very Important Stuff occurs in the interval.
Comment by Kip Colegrove — January 28, 2010 @ 9:33 am
For many years I’ve imagined the tale being taken up very much as it is in the new book, that is, at the point where word is sent north to the Duke’s stronghold. I’m now experiencing IRG (immense reader gratification). Not that I think I’m clever for figuring it out; it’s just nice to have one’s dreams come true once in a while.
Comment by arthur piantadosi — January 28, 2010 @ 10:18 am
This is Arthur. Actually, I read that chapter, and now we know for certain that Duke Verrakai was in on the whole damn stinking business. I know this isn’t really about Oath of Fealty, but you have a character in Liar’s Oath say that someone from across the mountains started the Finaareans worshiping Liart. And I keep wondering about Aare. Sometimes they remind me of Rome, other times the Normans. I just can’t figure out if it’s both at the same time or some other group entirely.
Comment by KateG — January 28, 2010 @ 10:28 am
I feel like my dog when I’ve only given her one biscuit and she knows there’s a second one coming. However, I will refrain from drooling all over my keyboard. The snippit and chapter are wonderful and I can’t wait to read the whole thing.
Comment by elizabeth — January 28, 2010 @ 10:49 am
Glad you like it, Kip. There were alpha readers who thought it should start in what is now chapter three. Or even four. But, like you, I had always thought of those left behind, who had no idea what was going on, or that their world had changed so dramatically without their knowing.
Comment by elizabeth — January 28, 2010 @ 10:52 am
Best to think of them as another group entirely, Arthur. Although the study of history lets me make use of bits and pieces of various cultures, nothing here is a direct copy of any of them–even the gnomes, though “Roman” in their approach to Law, are not Roman in other ways.
Comment by elizabeth — January 28, 2010 @ 10:52 am
KateG: ::beams:: ::does jig:: Thanks, she says in her own voice.
Comment by RichardB — January 28, 2010 @ 4:02 pm
Saw the new UK edition of the Deed in a bookstore today for the first time! The cover looks *great* and the paper and typesetting quality is fine.
One fly in the ointment: in the map, what should be grey shading on the mountains has come out solid black.
There was only one copy on the shelf so I don’t know if it’s a universal problem.
Comment by Adam Baker — January 28, 2010 @ 6:15 pm
Oops! Im sorry! I totally overlooked the fact that the excerpt mentioned the 7 day gap between Duke Verrakai’s meeting w/ the rat and the conversation at the stronghold.
Comment by Layla — January 28, 2010 @ 10:11 pm
OMG! *clicks link with fangirl squeal* time to re-re-re-re-re-re-re(you get the point)-read paks.
Comment by Jeff — January 29, 2010 @ 7:32 am
THanks for clearing up my confusion. It may not be “a Paks story,” but it’s A story in that universe, which is more than good enough for me. I was still more than impressed with the sample over at Del Ray, so like the rest, it’s time to pull out my copy of the Deed and get back up to speed (like I really needed an excuse
Comment by Kathleen — January 29, 2010 @ 11:39 am
And I liked it too. At least the other half knows that I’ll be out of the loop for a couple of hours (at least) when it arrives…. ;-]
Comment by Layla — January 30, 2010 @ 5:35 pm
I truly can’t wait for the next bit(or book)