OUT OF ALL HOOPING

[pameladean]

I have, not exactly in my hand right now, but very near by, and honestly I think I might sleep with it under my pillow, the termination paperwork for The Dubious Hills AND the cancelled and as-yet unpublished sequel to Hills, that is, the work sometimes known as Going North.

This has been imminent for some weeks now and I have been trying to figure out what to do. I will let you guys know as soon as I have.

What I can say is that Going North needs to be re-expanded, not to its former two-volume length, but by perhaps 20,000 words; that probably not all of them will be words that I have already written; and that I am very well, indeed painfully, aware that people have been waiting for far, far too long for this book; so I will do my best to be expeditious.

One might well ask why I didn't do the revisions while I was awaiting the paperwork, but I can only say that they had not come properly into focus, and in fact I needed to write a short story first to get things to line up or clear up or whatever this analogy thinks it is doing just now. I would apologize for my creative process, but that wouldn't make it any less annoying.

Pamela

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is *very* traumatic. To think that they could cancel on you and yet the rights wouldn't automatically come back to you--I realize that must be how it is in publishing (I think I remember hearing this from someone else who had a series cancelled partway through), but wow. That really stinks.

But how wonderful that now, at last, it will come out, and in a manner that's happy for you.

I need to read your books! I've really enjoyed hearing my friends talk about them.