I was wondering, do you keep the false starts and revisions prior to re-writes. As in, since you are starting Touch over again, do you still hold on to the versions that it was prior to final product?

Anonymous

I hold on to the prior versions in that there are copies on my computer. So I have TOUCH A and TOUCH B, and am now working on TOUCH C. But I don’t tend to do anything with the prior versions because if they worked, they wouldn’t be prior >.>.

In the old days, when everything was on floppy disks, I didn’t keep prior versions. I’d write over them. Now, with disk space that I’m in no danger of ever exceeding, I put them in a folder.

I am a long standing addict to the cast series but for unknown reasons never dived into the sun sword series. Recently I was short of reading stock and decided to try this. First, I need to say that I thought it absolutely superb. Second, I was astonished to find several of the books near impossible to purchase legitimately in ebook format. In particular book 4 but also book s 3 and 5 are widely available illegally but not on mainstream ecommerce sites. How come?

Anonymous

DAW is a small publisher, and they have a huge backlist of books which were done using older production methods. So they need to scan the books and then proof-read and format them. Book 5 is widely available because that’s the first book they released in that series.

The Sun Sword has been in print continuously since publication - until the Borders collapse. Borders probably accounted for 50-60% of backlist fantasy sales for midlist authors, and when they closed, the numbers from the other sources wasn’t high enough to keep the print books available.

The first book that disappeared entirely was Riven Shield. So I asked that DAW bring that one out as an ebook first. That was done, and the rest are in the pipeline; I know that DAW was proofing Shining Court as of the Worldcon. But I don’t have a solid release date for the rest of the books, I’m sorry =(

I know this isn't really a question, but I want to let you know I just got my copy of Cast in Peril and I can't wait to read it! (The book store I use tends to get things in early :) )

Anonymous

Thank you!

I’ve been keeping my head down here, and trying to make up lost time—which is not exactly the best thing to happen around a book’s release. 

“I gotta tell you, I just think to look across the room and automatically assume that somebody else is less aware than me, or that somehow their interior life is less rich, and complicated, and acutely perceived than mine, makes me not as good a writer. Because that means I’m going to be performing for a faceless audience, instead of trying to have a conversation with a person. […] It’s true that I want very much—I treasure my regular-guyness. I’ve started to think it’s my biggest asset as a writer. Is that I’m pretty much just like everybody else.”

David Foster Wallace
kateelliottsff: artbyraveyrai: Artwork (c) Raven W. (BKA: RaveyRai) Characters (c) Kate Elliott This is so awesome I am speechless. Okay, not quite speechless. Not only is this completely fabulous, but unbeknownst to the (amazing) artist, in book three I actually describe Cat as acquiring a spruce green traveling skirt with a double row of front buttons.

kateelliottsff:

artbyraveyrai:

Artwork (c) Raven W. (BKA: RaveyRai)

Characters (c) Kate Elliott

This is so awesome I am speechless.

Okay, not quite speechless. Not only is this completely fabulous, but unbeknownst to the (amazing) artist, in book three I actually describe Cat as acquiring a spruce green traveling skirt with a double row of front buttons.

mattfisher: My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court I’ve been sending out some impertinent tweets about Progressive Insurance lately, but I haven’t explained how they pissed me off. So I will do that here as succinctly as possible. There’s a general understanding that says, “insurance companies— oh they’re awful,” but since Progressive turned their shit hose on my late sister and my parents, I’ve learned some things that really surprised me. I’ll try to cleave to the facts. On June 19, 2010, my sister was driving in Baltimore when her car was struck by another car and she was killed. The other driver had run a red light and hit my sister as she crossed the intersection on the green light. Read More

mattfisher:

My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court

I’ve been sending out some impertinent tweets about Progressive Insurance lately, but I haven’t explained how they pissed me off. So I will do that here as succinctly as possible. There’s a general understanding that says, “insurance companies— oh they’re awful,” but since Progressive turned their shit hose on my late sister and my parents, I’ve learned some things that really surprised me.

I’ll try to cleave to the facts. On June 19, 2010, my sister was driving in Baltimore when her car was struck by another car and she was killed. The other driver had run a red light and hit my sister as she crossed the intersection on the green light.

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Will you write a book providing more details on the hawk lord and his people and also a book with more details on the Lord of the Wolves? thanks

Anonymous

I have every hope of writing an Aerian novel at some point in the future - but I don’t have a story in mind for it yet. The Shadow Wolves are tricky, because Kaylin isn’t a Wolf, and every time I think I have something pinned down, the story expands and shifts in ways that take it out of the Wolves’ purview. So, the answer for the first is yes, the answer for the second is hopefully.

So I just finished re-reading the Cast series in preparation for the new one, and since I finished early, I went and re-read Skirmish. And I realized that each of these books really takes place over a grand total of a week at most. (Skirmish is what, 6 days?) If it wouldn't be considered spoiler-ish, how long are _Peril_ and _Battle_? As in, how many days does their action span?

Anonymous

Peril covers a couple of weeks. Battle starts about two months after Skirmish, but - wait (this is Michelle checking her time-line). If you discount the prologue, Battle covers a period of just under three weeks.