Short fiction continues to flow…it’s odd, this happened after I finished the Deed–the first really solid short stories I’d ever been able to write and finish.\u00a0 Only one of them sold–“Bargains”–and the agent I got later said the others weren’t that good (since none of them had sold in the several years before he took me on, he was probably right.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But finishing the trilogy led to an outburst of short stuff.\u00a0 And now that’s happening again.\u00a0 (Only now, I think,\u00a0 I write better short stuff.) <\/p>\n
You know two stories have sold, and I’ve told you that there’s a later-on Beclan story.\u00a0\u00a0 It looks like there’s going to be a Farin-the-cook story and a story from the distant past in Old Aare\u00a0 about the time the drought is really taking hold there.\u00a0\u00a0 There’s the start of a story about Aesil M’dierra,\u00a0 but it might grow into a whole novel.\u00a0 I dunno.\u00a0\u00a0 It may be her uncle Ilanz who’s the real story.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Arcolin and Kieri’s first meeting popped up, but hasn’t gone anywhere useful…the image of Arcolin in the clothes he was wearing when he got to Valdaire…very interesting.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Various Kuakkgani are wandering around in my head, but they’re hard to pin down for story purposes.\u00a0 They consider their rites very secret indeed.\u00a0 (But people KNOW, I’ve told them.\u00a0 They look at me and turn greenish, and walk away, humming.)\u00a0 Other characters surround me, some looking wistful and others jingling coins in their pockets or stroking a blade suggestively.<\/p>\n
At any rate, steps have been taken toward putting together a collection to come out as an e-book in the fall, and another one sometime later.\u00a0\u00a0 They might become print-on-demand hard-copy books later, but not immediately.\u00a0 Nothing’s hard and fast yet.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Discussions were held.\u00a0 An email of intent has wafted thence-wards, but that’s all.<\/p>\n
As planned, the collections–two now, with more to come later maybe–would include previously published work (both in print and online,\u00a0 in publisher blogs)\u00a0 and two completely new stories each.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The idea is to collect all the Paksworld stories in one place–I know some collectors will have them all, but this way they’ll be (I hope)\u00a0 easily found and read, and with a little commentary to explain where they fit in the chronology and geography they’ll be suitable for readers who aren’t fully informed in the Paksworld milieu.<\/p>\n
So that’s something to look forward to, when you’ve gnawed Crown<\/em> to the bare bones and cracked them and sucked out the marrow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Short fiction continues to flow…it’s odd, this happened after I finished the Deed–the first really solid short stories I’d ever been able to write and finish.\u00a0 Only one of them sold–“Bargains”–and the agent I got later said the others weren’t that good (since none of them had sold in the several years before he took […]<\/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":[107],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168"}],"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=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}