It looks like Limits of Power will be a summer book, not a spring book, next year.\u00a0\u00a0 My new editor took on the heroic task of reading the entire Paksworld corpus before leaping into the new book–and I was delighted that she did so.\u00a0\u00a0 But that was eight previous books–none of them skinny–and she had other duties besides working on my book; she wants to do one more read of that before giving me her revision requests, which I won’t get until the end of the month.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So instead of trying to rush the production schedule, which is a good way to introduce accidental errors,\u00a0 the planned release date has been pushed back.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s not set in stone yet, but it’s “fairly firm” for June.<\/p>\n
I know this will disappoint\u00a0 many of you (and me, as well) but it will produce a better book than if she had rushed into reading it without having a solid background in the whole Paksworld mythos, or tried to rush it through the production stages.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It will have a reasonable time for copy-editing, for\u00a0 review of the copy-editing,\u00a0 conversion to its multiple formats, etc.\u00a0 This is all to the good.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (And where did my cursor<\/em> go???\u00a0 It suddenly disappeared for no reason…the words do appear where I click on the page, but it’s hard to place the click accurately when there’s no marker.)<\/p>\n Meanwhile, I’ll continue to work on Book V, and as soon as I know an absolutely firm date for publication, I’ll get back to you.\u00a0\u00a0 You’ll be glad to know (I hope) that I’m sparing you a long, boring stretch of days at sea with nothing for my POV character to do but wonder when it will ever end.\u00a0 And another long boring stretch of someone recovering from an injury–you get some of that, but not a day by day, because that would require another book.\u00a0 Or four.\u00a0 (And those other books may be written, but not now.\u00a0 This one has to be on the bit and moving with impulsion to the end.\u00a0 Which I hope agrees to die itself up into a very decorative knot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It looks like Limits of Power will be a summer book, not a spring book, next year.\u00a0\u00a0 My new editor took on the heroic task of reading the entire Paksworld corpus before leaping into the new book–and I was delighted that she did so.\u00a0\u00a0 But that was eight previous books–none of them skinny–and she had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,38,5],"tags":[31,107],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-limits-of-power","category-marketing","category-the-writing-life","tag-the-book-business","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580"}],"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=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}