Writing
Prince of Fire & Ashes is in my editor's hands. A publication date will soon be set by Tor, most probably some time in Spring of 2002.
I completed my introduction for the University of Nebraska Press's Buffalo Books line of Classic Science Fiction Novels (and saw it published, that was fast!).
Artwork:
I did an essay for Minicon's 2001 convention handbook ("Some Destinations are more Picturesque than Others") including three watercolor illustrations to go along with the article's text. The half-tone reproductions turned out well--thanks to great, and now almost blithely regarded as standard, printing technology.
Curious to know what I've been reading? I've had some recent emails asking me about writing influences/what I've thought of some recent books. So... I do have some reviews up on Amazon.Com's site, for those who are interested.
October is the publication date of the University of Nebraska's Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt, for which I wrote a new introduction. This is the sequel to Conan Doyle's first Professor Challenger novel, the rather more famous The Lost World (in which an intrepid group of Englishmen find dinosaurs on an isolated plateau in ... Patagonia, I think? The Poison Belt concerns a "scientific" adventure closer to home. It's a slim but worthy read, and doing the research for the intro was fun, July: The "Signings, Conventions &c" page has been updated to include a high resolution image of Katya, suitable for reproduction in convention booklets &c. The thumbnail is on the Signings, Conventions &c page, the massive 767k image is on its own page "here" (don't click this link unless you have massive patience or a fast modem!). Grateful as I have been to my friend at JHU for hosting these pages since... so early, it is nice that I can actually put visuals up! June: A new page for the German language edition of The Chronicles of Tielmark (Deutsche Ausgabe) has been added, including the beautiful new cover art for book I. Deutsche Leser--meine Entschuldigungen für meine schwachen deutschen Sprachfähigkeiten! May: The "Signings, Conventions &c" page has been updated. I'm going to Worldcon this year! (Worldcon is traditionally held on Labor Day Weekend. This year Worldcon, The Millennium Philcon® will be taking place in Philadelphia, PA.) The German edition of A Tremor in the Bitter Earth made its appearance on bookstore shelves —I have yet to receive my copies. Retitled Im Herzen des Feindes—"In the Heart of the Enemy,"which I take to be a reference to Gaultry's venturing into... enemy territory? I mildly mourn the loss of the elemental aspect in the titles of the German editions (Air, Earth, Fire), but... it's actually a great title for this book.
"In the heart of the enemy..." that pretty much describes Tullier / Gaultry, which is... really the most important theme of this book. It is exciting equally to see my books come to press in the language of my paternal forefathers.
For all this, I forgive the fact that the new cover features ...a technicolor sea-serpent attacking a ship. What can I say: there IS no sea-serpent in this book! *g* April: Prince of Fire & Ashes is now in my editor's hands When I know the publication date Tor Books has set, I'll put up that information here . ..and elsewhere on these pages.
It is with great pride that I announce the publication of the first foreign language edition of The Chronicles of Tielmark: The German edition of Wind from a Foreign Sky made its appearance on bookstore shelves in Spring of 2001. Retitled Die Göttlichen Schwestern, it has new cover (better in some ways than the American cover, sigh) and looks great. I am very pleased!
January: The "Signings, Conventions &c" page has been updated with my upcoming convention appearances.
