Posts Tagged ‘a fantasy medley’
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A Fantasy Medley is nearly sold out
SOOOO, If you want a copy of this anthology from Subterranean Press, you’d best order one soon!
That’s the Amazon link. I know it says the book isn’t available yet, but it looks as if the pre-orders will consume the whole run.
In addition to my story, "Words Like Coins", set in the Farseer universe, you will find Kate Elliott’s "River of Death", Kelley Armstrong’s "Zen and the Art of Vampirism" and C.E. Murphy’s "From Russia With Love".
Subterranean Press puts out lovely little hardbacks, and I’ve been very pleased to be part of this project.
Robin
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From the desk of Robin Hobb
Hello!
I am writing in for Robin who is hard at work getting her word count in. I’m attempting to keep her off the internet while she meets her deadline. Lately she’s been watching these pigeon videos on youtube. Not that I’m complaining. Robin is way easier to work with than Megan Lindholm. Megan is commonly known to use the last bit of coffee creamer and not say a word about it.I hope this update finds you well and not still at work as I am, at 11:57 PM Pacific Coast Time. Robin would have long ago let me go home but Megan Lindholm has kept me up late and working, insisting that I find something she put in her "Crap" folder. Come to find out it was filed not under "Crap" in the filing cabinet but under "Misc Crap" (in the M section). As if I need to look for crap in any other place than on her desk! I will post photographic proof but at a cost. What? Don’t you know that all assistants can be bought?
So while I am here slaving away I thought I’d put in a few updates.
Robin has an short story in the forthcoming A Fantasy Medley, an anthology edited by Yanni Kuznia of Subterranean Press. Also featured in the anthology are Kate Elliott, C.E. Murphy and Kelley Armstrong.
Robin’s contribution to the collection is "Words Like Coins" is a story set in the Farseer world. There is an excerpt of it featured on Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist.I’m personally very excited for this anthology. Please check it out and if it looks of interest, preorder! I have my order in. Well, what that means is I’m trying to get to the mail before Robin does so I can get it home and read it first.
In other news, I’m excited to announce that you can now listen to Robin’s books in traffic. Recorded Books has agreed to publish audiobook editions of Forest Mage, Shaman’s Crossing, and Renegade’s Magic.
That’s it for updates! I will pop on occasionally from time to time. Hope this finds you well.
Ever engaging in friendly sabotage and dialogue,
The Office Kat
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A very good writing day
There are average writing days and there are good ones. And there are very good ones. Today was very good.
The first part was that it was a productive day. I cleaned up chapter 15, bringing me to page 449 of a manuscript I really liked, and began the clean up on Chapter 16. I’m enjoying these characters tremendously, while trying to keep a lid on the story. I said Dragon Keeper was going to be a single volume stand-alone book, and it will be.
It will just be a rather fat single-volume stand-alone book.
Then, by real mail, I received my copy of Soleil’s L’Assassin Royal. I’ve been excited about this happening, but I wasn’t prepared for the rush I got actually holding it in my hands. It is beautiful. Gaudin and Sieruac have outdone themselves. This is a glossy covered hardback graphic novel, with lovely endpapers. I looked at them for a few moments before I even began to turn the pages. There are so many good bits in here, so many captured moments that I can’t begin to list them off. Nosy. Fitz’s first encounter with the Fool. Molly. Chade as Lady Thyme. It is just amazing and wondrous.
There is a small fly in ointment. In this first edition, one of the pages is reversed. Pages 12 and 13 are transposed. It will, of course, be corrected. And having survived a book with an entire dropped chapter(!!!) I think I can weather this with equanimity.
As if that were not enough for a great day, I then received an email from Yanni at Subterranean Press. Attached was the cover art of A Fantasy Medley. It is both lovely and striking! With a bit of luck, I’ll figure out how to upload it to my pictures and others will be able to view it there.
So. Just one of those days when, despite sawdust everywhere from the kitchen remodel, kids underfoot, a psycho pigeon trying to move into my office and a cranky Siamese cat, I still feel like I really am a writer. And it’s all worth it.