something of an announcement (after a long build-up)

In March next year, I'll have three new books out--The Changeling, Earth Ascendant and The Force Unleashed--making them my equal-23rd novels. I'm quite excited about it, and not just because 23 is my favourite number.

What it's meant, though, is that I've spent the last month or so poring over three separate sets of re-writes, copy edits, and page proofs, plus many discussions about blurbs, cover quotes, maps, and cover designs. That wears a thin pretty fast, and can be a bit confusing on sleepy mornings with three books on the go at once. To keep things interesting, a French translation has also been popping up every now and again, plus the Pyr paperback reissue The Crooked Letter in paperback, also due in March.

Still, it's over now, and my brain can go back to normal (or what passes for normal around here). I'm about to launch into The Grand Conjunction (the last of the Astropolis books) and from there straight into The Scarecrow (the last in the Broken Land series). I have a couple of other loose ends to tie off after that, and then I'm free. What that means, I'm still working out.

But this might be part of it:

I've been accepted into a PhD in creative writing at Adelaide University.

Magellanic Pygmy Rice Rat

Thanks to maelorin for this cool meme. How could you not love a band/album like this???

My band is Roller-bot and our new album is Magellanic Pygmy Rice Rat.

1. 1160s in architecture
2. 1680 in piracy
3. Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy
4. Italian films of 2003
5. Alex Tintaru
6. Rincon
7. Serie A 1971-72
8. Brunellia penderiscana
9. Oropouche fever
10. Parinacota
11. Cyprus Avenue
12. Antonio Zabelli
13. Bassem Ben Nasser
14. Fountains Abbey
15. Villeneuve-le-Roi

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