I'm feeling much better...

[stillsostrange]

DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! The comment thread now contains spoilers for the Necromancer Chronicles!

The Bone Palace CEM is finished and back in the loving arms of Orbit's production team. I can now ignore it again until the page proofs get here. Of course, as soon as I had 24 hours to finish the copy edits, I thought of an epilogue. Oh well--it'll be a website extra.

Now I need to finish my half of a Shadow Unit episode, and then get seriously back to work on Kingdoms of Dust. This may mean beating some faeries to death with a stick, because they will not leave me alone.

Since I suck so much at providing blog content, is there anything anyone wants me to talk about? Questions about TDC, or anything else? Cat photos? Until then, I'll be on an archaeological dig in the back of my fridge.

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[saladinahmed.livejournal.com]

"is there anything anyone wants me to talk about? Questions about TDC"

Hey, sure, I'll bite! Here's a bunch of semi-random questions. Anything here that sounds nitpicky, BTW, should be taken in the larger context of my having just loved this book -- Necromancer Chronicles is totally on my very short must-read series list now.

****SPOILERS BELOW!!!******

-In TDC, there's a VERY brief allusion (when Isylt says something like 'I've never met one of you') to the fact that Adam is a half-breed and might in fact be something more than human. The thing is, we were n Isylt's POV when she asked him about this, so I'd have liked to have shared her knowledge about the race [?] that Adam's human half is mixed with. Are you willing to say any more about this here? Is this something we'll see more of in later books?

-Are the jinn in this world a subspecies (as it were) of spirit, or are they something distinct from both humans and spirits? What about the nakh? Does this world have other sentient corporeal races (as opposed to spirits)? Do they have civilizatins/territories if so?

- I didn't actually read the sample chapter of the next book (I never do that when they're offered, for various reasons). But I assume Isylt will still be our main character? Will the next books also be multiple-POV, and have we already been introduced to any of the other characters from whose POV we'll be reading from?

- Is the conflict with the Assari Empire still a major focus of subsequent books? BTW,I like very much thus far what I've seen of the Assari in that you haven't (yet?) engaged in a lot of the stereotypes that fantasy writers use when depicting their quasi-Islamic cultures. Sure the Assari are 'the bad guys' to some degree, but they have a Senate (instead of just being fanatical Eastern despots), and they are capable of having an Empress (instead of being oh-so-more sexist than the Euro-analogue culture). Good show!

Really looking forward to future volumes....

[mr-earbrass.livejournal.com]

At one point you mention ginger beer in TDC--is this ginger beer ala Gosling (non-alcoholic) or a beer brewed with ginger ala Left Hand's Juju Ginger? I ask because I am thirsty and love ginger, and if there is some sort of IRL analog I would love to know about it. MOre questions when I'm not exhausted and dehydrated.