an accessible cataclysm
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adelaideseanIt's been a hectic fortnight on the fantasy frontline.
The Devoured Earth debuted in the Dymocks national fantasy top ten list on its release in Australia. To celebrate its launch, readers in Adelaide are invited to Borders on Friday the 15th of this month, where I'll be talking about the book and signing anything thrust in front of me.
Publishers Weekly reviewed the beautiful Pyr edition of The Blood Debt thus: "The detail of Williams's imagined world and his characters' concern with the moral consequences of their actions compel interest". (Four books in this series, not three. I'll keep saying that here in the hope that the collective subconscious will eventually pick it up.)
Two new reviews of The Crooked Letter, here ("If you're looking for a good fantasy read that is part of the FWtE (fantasy without the elves) genre, check this one out.") and here ("as dark and gritty as a Miéville novel, as strange as Steven King, and more accessible than either"). I am well chuffed.
Drifting onto the topic of books not yet published, I finished the first draft of The Dust Devils on Sunday. How satisfying it is to whip out a completed ms in just thirty-three days! Kids books are fun. And on a similar note, this morning I finished my first short story in over six years, which I started yesterday. More of a "whew" than a "woohoo", but I am deeply excited about it. It feels like coming home.
The Devoured Earth debuted in the Dymocks national fantasy top ten list on its release in Australia. To celebrate its launch, readers in Adelaide are invited to Borders on Friday the 15th of this month, where I'll be talking about the book and signing anything thrust in front of me.
Publishers Weekly reviewed the beautiful Pyr edition of The Blood Debt thus: "The detail of Williams's imagined world and his characters' concern with the moral consequences of their actions compel interest". (Four books in this series, not three. I'll keep saying that here in the hope that the collective subconscious will eventually pick it up.)
Two new reviews of The Crooked Letter, here ("If you're looking for a good fantasy read that is part of the FWtE (fantasy without the elves) genre, check this one out.") and here ("as dark and gritty as a Miéville novel, as strange as Steven King, and more accessible than either"). I am well chuffed.
Drifting onto the topic of books not yet published, I finished the first draft of The Dust Devils on Sunday. How satisfying it is to whip out a completed ms in just thirty-three days! Kids books are fun. And on a similar note, this morning I finished my first short story in over six years, which I started yesterday. More of a "whew" than a "woohoo", but I am deeply excited about it. It feels like coming home.
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Date: 2006-09-07 11:30 am (UTC)Thirty-three days is certainly something to grin about. Actually, in writing, endings are always something to grin about :D ::gives chocolates::
Hope you don't mind, but I've friended you to my main journal so I can read you on my friends page there. My other guise is
And I would like to read your stuff more often :D
Nutty
(pouting cos she won't be in Adelaide on the 15th)
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Date: 2006-09-07 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-07 11:19 pm (UTC)Nutty
(day off work, yay!)