Having had a final round of “Just fix this bit right here…” from my agent today, Book IV is now with NewEditor.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All but that chapter’s work got his approval earlier in the day; the past 8 days have been busy but apparently fruitful.\u00a0\u00a0 Book IV grew back up to 170,800+ words, as my agent felt I had compressed some parts too much.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Since the book has been, since it’s supposed first-final-length, everything from 180,000+ down to 156,000 [when stuff was clearly missing!] and many, many points in between, a tad under 171,000 is probably a healthy weight for it.)<\/p>\n
So…my copies of Echoes<\/em> having arrived yesterday (when I couldn’t quit working to give them the attention they deserved)\u00a0 I’m now looking at the one right here beside me.\u00a0 Pretty.\u00a0\u00a0 My Precioussssss!<\/p>\n The deities of distribution being what they are, some of you already have a copy (Sweden and someplace in New York)\u00a0 so it’s time to remind people of Spoiler Rules.\u00a0\u00a0 I really can’t open a Spoiler Space for discussion yet (we need to be closer to the actual release date here) but I will do so as soon as it’s appropriate.\u00a0 In the meantime,\u00a0 please don’t discuss the contents of Echoes <\/em>with those who don’t have one yet, or gloat too visibly.<\/p>\n Someone this past week wrote and asked me for a brief description of the book.\u00a0\u00a0 Ahem.\u00a0 Right.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a book with a soldier and a dragon on the cover (in the US) and a soldier with a crossbow on the cover (in the UK.)\u00a0\u00a0 A lot of stuff happens.\u00a0 Some people die.\u00a0 Some don’t.\u00a0\u00a0 The characters range in age from mid-teens to really old, like thousands of years old.\u00a0\u00a0 More stuff happens.\u00a0\u00a0 Stuff keeps happening.\u00a0 A lot of it surprised me as I was writing it.\u00a0 (What?\u00a0 He\/she did that<\/em>?\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Which I then had to figure out.)<\/p>\n But Book IV, in which even more stuff happens (lots and lots more stuff happens, also surprising me multiple times)\u00a0 is now with NewEditor and I am facing all the things in the last week that weren’t done, and must be done quickly because I didn’t really plan to spend the first week of February on Book IV, but on Book V and the other stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having had a final round of “Just fix this bit right here…” from my agent today, Book IV is now with NewEditor.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All but that chapter’s work got his approval earlier in the day; the past 8 days have been busy but apparently fruitful.\u00a0\u00a0 Book IV grew back up to 170,800+ words, as my agent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,107],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}