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10. The Exile Kiss - George Alec Effinger

At the end of the third Budayeen book, I am bitterly, selfishly sad that there won't be more. I love these books so much, and I want to know what happens after Papa dies, and if Marid and Yasmin ever get married, and, and, and...

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23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story--from planning to writing to [submitting]?

If by story you mean novel, then ten million years. Short stories, eleven million. I have not, so far, managed to finish a novel in under a year. It would behoove me to do so, since Kingdoms is due in January. TDC took years to finish, and 15k of The Bone Palace had been stewing for years before I had to start working on it. If I make my deadline--and even give or take a few months--Kingdoms will be the fastest book I've ever written.

Short stories take exactly as long as they want to take. I once finished a story in two days, and it was irreparably (at least to this day) broken.

My ArmadilloCon schedule

Saturday

11:00 AM, Sabine: Gaming and its impact on writing--A. Marmell, D. Webb*, A. Downum, A. Martinez, P. Benjamin, D. Chang

2:00 PM, Dealer's Room: Signing

4:00 PM, Sabine: But wait, there's more!: When a book becomes a series--S. Lynch, A. Downum, J. Kenner*, S. Leicht, S. Brust

8:00 PM, Trinity: City as Character--A. Downum*, I. Andrews, G. Andrews, S. Lynch, P. Sarath, C. Berg, M. Wells (I told them I didn't want to moderate, the bastards!)

Sunday

3:30, Pecos: Reading