Good News Roundup

[jimhines]

It’s been a pretty good week so far!

• Yesterday, I finished and submitted LIBRIOMANCER to my editor. One day ahead of my deadline, no less! There will be at least one more round of revision once she’s read it, but for now, it’s DONE!!! It came in at just over 100,000 words, and they’re all PERFECT (except for one spot where I wrote Timon instead of Pumbaa.)
• As if to mark the occasion, my agent e-mailed yesterday to let me know we had sold rights to the first two Princess books to Turkey. Woo hoo!
• I have an essay called “Writing About Rape” in the latest issue of Apex Magazine.
• LIBRIOMANCER bookmarks arrived yesterday, and they look great. I shall commence handing them out at ConFusion, and will probably be offering/asking to mail some out to folks as we get closer to the release date.
• I got an e-mail yesterday with a picture of STEPSISTER SCHEME on the shelf at a college bookstore, where it’s listed as a required text for a class. That’s pretty darn cool!

It’s strange to be done, to not know what I have to work on during my lunch break today. Should I start planning book two, or should I dive into that short story that’s due in a few months? I don’t know. I could do either one if I wanted to! Whoa … I don’t know how to handle that kind of freedom!

The past few months have been pretty hectic, and I want to say publicly how much I appreciate all of the support and understanding my wife and kids have given me. Hopefully I’ll be able to pay some of that back now.

As for the book … well, you’ll be able to decide for yourself in August whether all of that time and work paid off, but personally, I think it’s pretty darn awesome, and I hope you will too.

Mirrored from Jim C. Hines.

Comments

[xap]

Yay for so much good news! :)

Really looking forward to Libromancer too :) Regarding bookmarks - if you'd like some passed out at Capricon next month let me know. While I won't be at Fusion (again *sigh*) I have people that will and could bring bookmarks to me so you don't need to deal with postage.

Also, the required class reading? That is definitely awesome! :)

[jimhines]

Thank you! I may follow up on the Capricon bookmark thing too. I had been thinking about trying to go to that one, but at this point I don't think it's going to happen :-(

Sorry you won't be able to make it to Confusion this year!

[xap]

Would love to see you at Cap, but can understand....especially given the timing (not always the best traveling weather, eh?). Anyway, just let me know about the bookmarks; as I mentioned, couriers are readily available :)

Though if you do decide to add another Chicago con I'm betting the rest of the family would find lots to enjoy at MuseCon *grin* Not exactly SF, but extremely fannish, and lots of fun :) </commercialplug>

[brownbetty]

The vampire novel you mention in 'Writing About Rape', it wouldn't happen to be The Becoming, would it?

Because I'd hate to think there were two such books. (Although I wouldn't be precisely shocked.)