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More Chinese Whispers
In late-breaking news, The Alchemist of Souls has now appeared on the Random House website for pre-order, with a US print publication date of February 28, 2012 Unfortunately, the blurb is currently suffering from an even worse attack of Chinese Whispers than the Bookseller announcement back in April, so I’m a bit loath to publicize Continue Reading »
Signing on the dotted line
Another flurry of emails today, to sort out the final details of my book deal. First up, I was able to announce my agent’s identity at last, which was nice since I have lots of friends hanging on every detail of my progress! Secondly, the book deal itself. Turns out there was a misunderstanding over Continue Reading »
Another request for the full ms
Woke up in the night to some great news – the agent who requested a partial wants to see more! Of course he wants to wait until I’ve finished the current round of revisions, but he was really encouraging in his comments, and it sounds like he’s already thinking about where he might place it, Continue Reading »
Another round of revisions
This week has been mostly an “up” week, thankfully. I did get an agent rejection on Saturday, a rather bland “did not quite ‘click’ with us” letter, but owing to progress on other fronts, I’m not in a tearing hurry to get an agent right now. The progress in question is that after a month Continue Reading »


