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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.
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.
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Date: 2007-12-12 03:25 am (UTC)You'll have to grow your mo back. Can't be a mad scientist without the mo.
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Date: 2007-12-12 03:30 am (UTC)I could do that. :-)
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Date: 2007-12-12 03:29 am (UTC)And here I was thinking all PhDs were exercises in creative writing :p
[I'm already nearing the end of Year One Of The PhD! Aaargh!]
Congrats, etc.
Does this mean your next novel will be accompanied by an exegesis?
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Date: 2007-12-12 03:32 am (UTC)We like to keep things honest here at Adelaide. :-)
Yes, the dreaded Exegesis. It's currently called "Examining the Role of Social Identity in the Crime/Science Fiction Hybrid" but that's bound to change a zillion times before I settle.
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From:settle? lol!
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Date: 2007-12-12 04:42 am (UTC)In my own exciting Adelaide news, I've just accepted a job over there. And will be moving in the height of summer :P
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Date: 2007-12-12 05:33 am (UTC)Congratulations, that's awesome! And bring on the Astropolis books! :)
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Date: 2007-12-12 09:27 pm (UTC)I hope you realise just how inspiring you can be, not just by what you write, but how you write. It is no small thing to do what you do - to sit down and have the self motivation and drive to complete these projects.
And congrats on the PhD! Perhaps once you get that, there won't be so much confusion every time you book a hotel room. You could simply say that you are the Doctor Sean Williams (and watch them jump :D).
Anyways, I will sit back and admire as I attempt to to embark on the novel I've been trying to write for a year or so. I know it is possible cos you can do it :D
Oh, and I owe you a wave from a while back ::waves:: :D
Nutty
(pregnancy interrupts the writing, damnit!)
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Date: 2007-12-12 10:54 pm (UTC)Having just completed my PhD at Adelaide (graduating next Thursday) I can tell you that is almost exactly, but not quite, like trying to jam a large sofa into your mouth while juggling knives. I'm sure that you'll enjoy it.
(I have always claimed that most computer science theses are science fiction - just slightly less well researched than most hard science fiction...)
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Date: 2007-12-13 10:30 pm (UTC)Congrats and darn!
Date: 2007-12-14 05:28 am (UTC)Congrats! :-)
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Date: 2007-12-14 05:55 am (UTC)I'll report here when I know for sure what's happening in 2008... :-)
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Date: 2007-12-14 11:33 pm (UTC)Mind you I get scared - Dr Sean & Dr Kim.......presentations will never ever be the same again ;)
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