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Just to break the chain of really fun photos of Oath traveling the world, I thought you might like an update on what book-related work has been going on. I think I mentioned when the revisions went in. I’ve also done a couple of interviews (one phone, one email) and answered a UK copy-editor’s questions about that edition of the Gird/Luap omnibus. The map for Kings of the North is still to do.
In direct work on Book III and beyond, I’ve mostly uncovered bad patches that need to be removed, replaces, and carefully welded to the other stuff. This often happens when trying to write in brief snatches separated by a week or longer. One of them is quite long and comes close to being one of those darlings you’re supposed to murder…the first part is still solid, sound stuff and will stay, but at some point it goes off the timeline and introduces a temporal impossibility. Can’t have that. I’ve poked and prodded to see the best place to amputate, but haven’t quite found it yet.
Today, while singing the second Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday service, a plot bomb arrived in the middle of the last hymn that blew open the end of the entire plot arc. The big plot arc. The one that had been sort of dangling (yes, this big thing and that big thing happen, but I knew something was missing, because they sort of lay there, side by side. Still not finished. The mmmph have to be involved, and also the shhhhh-no-spoilers-remember? (Little eager blabbermouth wants to talk about it rather than writing it, which is fatal when it’s something that far ahead. After all, it might prove to be a dull pebble instead of shiny! shiny! brilliant!)
Suffice it to say (watch it…watch it…) the, um, Stuff in Oath that connects with that other Stuff in Divided Allegiance (enough of a hint for those of you who have read Oath) continues to…um…be important Stuff all the way to the end, wherever that is.
Meanwhile I need to jot down the plotbomb and find it a safe file-home that I will remember the filename of…(hollow laugh here.)