I’m sure many of you are wondering what’s happening as far as getting the finished novel done and delivered into your eager hands. Well, I’m working on it.<\/p>\n
I had two other books under contract, which took priority. One of those, The Summer Palace<\/em><\/a>, has now been completed, delivered, and accepted and will be published in 2008. The other, a non-fiction project, is written, but it still needs some updating — but for technical reasons I can’t do that updating until September.<\/p>\n Which means I’m midway through the second draft of The Vondish Ambassador<\/em>. I should have it done in a couple of weeks, whereupon I will send it to my chosen editor and negotiate a contract with Wildside Press. (Yes, I’m using my own editor, as well as theirs.)<\/p>\n I’m sorry it’s taken so long.<\/p>\n Incidentally, there have been a few latecomers donating money toward The Vondish Ambassador<\/em>, as recently as this past Saturday. I’ll probably send them copies of the finished book, but if you give me money at this point there is no guarantee<\/em> you’ll get anything for it. All further donations are entirely at your own risk.<\/p>\n And donations directed to The Spriggan Mirror<\/em><\/a> at this point receive nothing but a thank-you e-mail and my sincere gratitude.<\/p>\n In other Ethshar news, The Spriggan Mirror<\/em><\/a> is still available in trade paperback and e-book editions, and the limited hardcover edition wasn’t yet sold out last I checked. The rack-sized paperback from Cosmos Books is scheduled for September.<\/p>\n The new Cosmos Books paperback of The Misenchanted Sword<\/em><\/a> is scheduled for January 2008. No dates yet on any other Ethshar books.<\/p>\n The next Ethshar serial — and I may do a non-Ethshar one first — will probably be The Final Calling<\/em>, just to get it over with. I’ve recently worked out a lot of plot details on it. I have no idea at all when I’ll get to it, though.<\/p>\n Thanks again for all your support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m sure many of you are wondering what’s happening as far as getting the finished novel done and delivered into your eager hands. Well, I’m working on it. I had two other books under contract, which took priority. One of those, The Summer Palace, has now been completed, delivered, and accepted and will be published… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}