Some wild idea and a big white bed

A character started talking to me on the way home from the gym tonight, so at least I end November with a good wordcount.

Big Gay MacHamlet
Words today: 1452
Tyop: n/a
Darling: n/a
Mean things: ambition, bad memories, cold toes

10596 / 100000 words. 11% done!

I didn't mean for there to be a creepy Flowers In The Attic vibe between these characters, and yet there it is. Oops. On the upside, I just cast Stellan and Alexander Skarsgård as !Polonius and !Laertes, respectively. That tends to brighten a book. Now I need a matching !Ophelia.

A State of the Author post

I'm tired of coming up with alternate names for The Book Which Must Not Be Named, so I'll finally clarify the crazy book scrambling that's been going on around here since July.

Having delivered the three contracted books in The Necromancer Chronicles, I now have to come up with a proposal to show Orbit for an option novel. Either they like it (optimal, since I've been very happy with Orbit), or they pass and Fabulous Agent shops it elsewhere. My editor had some suggestions for possible option novels, which led to all my frantic scrambling to find a project that would make us both happy.*

In October, my editor left Orbit. Reader, I wailed; I tore my hair and beat my breast and rent my garments. Then I decided that since he wouldn't be the one we pitch the option novel to, I would be a shameless hack as practical as possible. So I started working on the fourth Necromancer Chronicle, The Winter Road, also known as Big Gay MacHamlet and That Damn (un)Norse Book.** I'm also revising Dreams, so I have two completely different projects to spread the insanity between.

I'd hoped that Orbit would assign me to a new editor fairly quickly, but since it's December and I haven't heard anything, I'm guessing that won't happen till next year.

So that's what's going on now. Any questions?



* I ended up with several different ideas I like, so it was a productive scramble.

** Unless it becomes The Ashen Throne, which is growing on me right now.