Like many people in publishing, early August will see me attending WorldCon in Glasgow, Scotland. It’ll be my first event in Europe ever with books out, so I’m really looking forward to that. I’ve had a lot of readers tell me how stoked they are to meet me and buy me an alcoholic beverage, so let me make it clear that I am very partial to people who buy me alcohol.
I’ll be on some panels, and I expect to have a signing and possibly a kaffeeklatsch at some point. If anyone sees me, feel free to stop and say hello. I’m also happy to sign anything (in and or outside of an official signing) that’s not a contract.
What else has been happening? Not so much. I’m still waiting for my editor to come back to me with edits for Wolfskin. But there ain’t no rest for the wicked, so I’ve been plugging away at a new book. I won’t reveal much about it, but I will say that I’m calling it the Rage book, and that I’ve just hit the 100k mark. I’m really enjoying how the project is shaping up, and I’ll be very excited for it to go on submission (hopefully by next year).
I’ll also say that my agent read the first act (roughly 40,000 words) and he had exceptionally good things to say about it. And say one thing for John Jarrold, no one has ever excused him of not shooting straight. So if it says it’s good, he does really mean it.
Otherwise, I’ve been reading the new Joe Abercrombie book: the Devils. Our mutual publisher sent me the book so I might blurb it. Here’s what I had to say:
Visceral and vivid, The Devils by Joe Abercrombie is exceptionally good. Every page is laced with an edge, an energy, packed with sharp wit and banter. If competing works of fantasy literature are a forest, Abercrombie is a damn flamethrower.
Also, you guys are gonna *love* Vigga-Wolf.
Till next time…
