lip re-zipped

[adelaidesean]

I may have just off-loaded one secret, but today I've taken on another. This new one is something I've been working at for several years now, and will continue working on intermittently until it's published around 2009. That means it'll have a longer gestation period than any of my other books, bar The Crooked Letter. The two books, however, could not be more different.

It feels mighty strange, having passed an important milestone and being unable to talk about it. I think I'm contractually bound to staying out of any form of communication with Jonathan Strahan for the foreseeable future. And sober. Ye gods!

Anyway, I'll come clean in 2009, if I'm allowed to by then. Sigh.

Countdown to Astropolis: 49 days.

Comments

[shadowsandice.livejournal.com]

Dude. That is so weak. You can't ponce about going "I have a secret, I have a secret, lalalalalala!" and then add "BUT I WON'T TELL YOU WHAT IT IS FOR TWO YEARS." That's just rude.

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Mea culpa. But I had to say *something* or else the urge to tell everyone would eventually take over, thereby shattering the cone of silence. Think of it as the little jet of steam coming out the side of a pressure cooker. It's keeping me sane. Relatively speaking, of course.

[shadowsandice.livejournal.com]

Oh all right. We'll let you off, just this once. ;p

[drbob00.livejournal.com]

Wow. Given your output rates how many rewrites do you expect in 2 years? Some people's marriages don't last that long :)

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

I don't know at this stage how many rewrites it'll go through. As many as it needs, I guess. That sounds facile, I know, but I don't mean it that way. I can whip through a re-write pretty quickly. What I'd like, and what I hope to get on this book, is some time to put it down and get some distance from it...

[(Anonymous)]

I wondered what that drunken phone call was really about. Now I understand the references to "the Oh-Nine project". "Godlike", "four billion words", "Elron" and "mortgage-buster".

Oh hang on, that was Jonathan's drunken phone call. What was yours about again?

Garth :-)

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

What was yours about again?

Hmm. Hard to recall. Could it have been "Oh God", "mortgage for nine billion", "word-like project", and "Elrond buster"? That rings a faint bell.