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July 21, 2005
Attention Men and Women of Earth!
Author Boy's next novel, ECLIPSE, will be released in Canada this coming September, and next March in the US.
W00t!
I've just spent the past week going over the galleys of the book, looking for stray glitches, blunders, goofs and something I gather the publishing industry calls "infelicities". I found heaps. Yikes! This is why the job took a week. Still, it's an opportunity to take the manuscript, before it's set in stone, and tweak the heck out of it--even if said tweaking sometimes consisted of things like removing a comma here, adding a semi-colon there, or rewriting a few lines here and there. I'm getting the next version in a day or two, and will go over it all again. I imagine Publisher Brian and I will do this pretty much right up until it's time to send the MS to the printer.
Oh, and right at the end of the whole job, going over everything, I got an idea for a possible spinoff story featuring a character from ECLIPSE and a character from the not-yet-released HYDROGEN STEEL. Oooh!
If you want to see more about ECLIPSE, you should get yourself over to the Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing site. You could even send them an email asking when you can pre-order. You know, if you wanted to, that is. [cough]
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In Other Author Boy News
I just now banged out over 2000 words of fresh notes for the ANTIMATTER VOODOO project. At last I'm getting somewhere. I've been having a problem with the book because the background of the setting wasn't really registering for me. It was like characters doing stuff against a blank background (like in those old Warner Bros. cartoons where Daffy Duck gets erased and stuff). So I've been putting some serious thought into developing the background in a big way--and found some surprising stuff. For one thing, against all my expectations, it turns out this book takes place on Earth. Way in the future, but on Earth. Crikey, I never saw that coming.
With a bit of luck I'll be back on the job starting this coming Monday, unless I'm back working on ECLIPSE fixes. So much to do, so much to do.
Posted by adrian at July 21, 2005 05:50 PM
Comments
Dave--You should be able to get it from Amazon once it goes on sale in Canada. As for the delay: I'm not entirely sure, but I figure it's a Canadian thing. I don't argue about it. :)
Cubes--it *is* a kick-arse cover, isn't it? I'm very happy with it. It goes very well with the story, too. I'm wondering if Publisher Brian can somehow persuade this artist into doing the cover for HYDROGEN STEEL, too. That would be awesome.
Selkie--when pre-ordering is available, you'll know. All of Christendom will know! :)
Charlie--that "his new novel" bit is pretty sweet, I must say. And I've been waiting a really long time for this, longer even than I waited for ORBITAL BURN, considering I wrote both books in the same year. It's undergone a lot of changes since then, but it's still much the same piece of work, from long ago. The thing that surprises me is that it's still topical.
TaleSwapper--thank you for stopping by, and very glad you like the cover!
Posted by: Adrian ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.kabedford.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 22, 2005 02:17 PM
Nice cover! Can't wait to buy it. Which raises a question -- why six months between the Canadian and US releases? Don't the Canuks just hurl books across the border the day they're released and hope US stores will sell them? :-) Seriously though, when will I be able to buy it from amazon.com?
Posted by: dshan at July 22, 2005 01:50 PM
Whoah! That is one kick-ass cover. September is too far away. I want one now.
Posted by: Cubicle Dweller at July 22, 2005 12:43 PM
boy, was i ever excited to see that book cover pop up when your site loaded!
jumpin' jedi! so very cool. i'll be keeping an eye out to see when we can order it direct from edge.
exciting!
Posted by: river selkie at July 22, 2005 09:26 AM
Phwoar! Can't wait to get a copy in my sweaty little hands. So, old bean, how did it feel to read "his NEW novel" in the blurb on the EDGE site? The phrase 'body of work' must spring to mind. :)
Posted by: Charlie at July 22, 2005 04:40 AM
Mmmmmmph!
I'm leaving town for the weekend - I'll write to you soon.
Posted by: treefen at July 22, 2005 12:59 AM
Wow. That's the first time in a long time that I've seen a new cover that I like. Very nice.
Posted by: TaleSwapper at July 21, 2005 10:51 PM
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