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Going to WorldCon
I’ve booked flights to Dublin for WorldCon. I’ll be there from the morning of August 15th to noon on the 19th. I’m scheduled to do one panel (can’t say what or when until the program is finalized in late July), and I’ll be doing a book launch of Forays of a Fat Man, my paperback omnibus of four Luff Imbry novellas from PS Publishing. And maybe a reading; again, I won’t know until the schedule is set in stone.
Kudos to the Canada Council for the Arts, which gave me a travel grant to defray the costs.
My stance on people approaching me to talk about stuff or get something signed: feel free.
Signed limited edition of What the Wind Brings
There will be a 100-copy signed limited hardcover edition of my historical novel, What the Wind Brings. The price is $70. That’s Canadian dollars, equivalent to about US$52 or £40. Here’s the pre-order page.
Signed contract for A God in Chains
I’ve signed a contract with Edge Publishing, a Canadian small press specializing in specfic, for A God in Chains, the Dying Earth-set fantasy I wrote in the fall. It’s my 22nd novel sale, not counting reprints, book clubs, and foreign translations.
The publisher’s name is Brian Hades, but no jokes about a deal with the Devil. We’ve known each other for years.
Busy, busy
I’ve asked the excellent artist Bradley W. Schenck, to prepare another of the fabulous certificates he creates for my Patreon patrons.
I’ve finished a 10,000-word novelette, “Stopover at Meech’s World,” and sent it to Lightspeed editor John Joseph Adams. The story revives Conn Labro and Jenore Mordene, from my 2008 stand-alone space-opera novel, Template. They now have a private space yacht that they’re hiring out for passenger charters among the Ten Thousand Worlds. I’m thinking of doing a series of adventures for them.
And in the near future, I’m going to release a new ebook and print-on-demand paperback. It’s a crime novel titled E.F.T., based on a screenplay I wrote decades ago. I’ve asked Bradley to do the cover art.
That’s Canadian dollars
A couple of people asked, so I checked. The $39.95 price on the limited edition of my magnum opus, What the Wind Brings, is in Canadian dollars. For Americans, that’s about a 25 per cent discount.
Here’s the pre-order page again. And the first 7,000 words.
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