Alma's Weblog... the writing life and more
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Well, it's September, and all kinds of things are in the air....
1.WORLDWEAVERS NEWS
"Gift of the Unmage", Worldweavers #1, has been critically very well
received, with a starred review in the prestigious VOYA journal, no
less. I've had mail from readers, too, both the younger kind and the
adults, and I seem to have hit a couple of issues that people are
responding to - one in particular being Thea's craving for parental
approval and not getting it in the manner which she wants or for the
proper reasons.
Thea grows and develops fast - her world is changing, and she is in no
small way part of what is changing it. She has some difficult choices
to make in Worldweavers #2, "Spellspam" - if you haven't been my blog
or my website lately, you may not have seen the cover for the new
book, and you can go have quick look at it
- I think it's fabulous. "Spellspam", by the way is available for
pre-rder
Amazon.com, right now - so if you have young 'uns (or older 'uns
for that matter) for whom you are wanting presents, here's a deal for
you - pre-order the book, email me that you've done that and give me a
snailmail address, and I will send you a signed bookplate SPECIALLY
made for the Worldweavers books which you can then put into people's
stockings this Christmas and tell them that they will be able to stick
the bookplate into the book in the Spring. The lines are, as they say,
now open.
I might also add that I"ve finished and handed in the third book in
the trilogy, and am awaiting the editorial letter on that imminently -
the book should be in production before Christmas... keep your eyes on
bookstore shelves for that one in the spring of 2009.
2. JIN SHEI NEWS
Please welcome my twelfth language for the Blessed Book - I have just
received word that it will be out in Russian sometime next year. I am
particularly pleased at this, because, of course, it's going to be in
the Cyrillic font - and that's the closest I've come to seeing my work
in my OWN home language. Let us recap - this means that the book is
now out in English (of course), Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese,
German, Dutch, Turkish, Czech, Lithuanian, Hebrew, andnow Russian. I
am feeling very international, and very happy, and very loved right
now...
3. CHANGER OF DAYS NEWS
And yet another language to report - the "Changer of Days" duology has
been sold to Spain, due out in 2009. That makes it three languages for
my little fantasy books. Again, one happy writer here...
4.OTHER NEWS
Just returned from my trip to Japan, where I was treated to the full
experience including my first crack at international business class
travel, and being right in the path of a tropical typhoon. I've never
QUITE seen vertical water before, but that one downpour that we got
caught in while wandering down the side of the Imperial Palace in
Tokyo was... sobering. We didn't GET the full brunt of the typhoon,
which veered off into the west and missed a direct hiton TOkyo, but
what we saw was interesting. We never did trip across Godzilla, but I
think I should get a T shirt that says "i survived a Tokyo Typhoon".
Pictures, of course. Lots of pictures. I'm making calendars for
Christmas presents...
