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I might sleep with it under my pillow, the termination paperwork for The Dubious Hills AND the cancelled and as-yet unpublished sequel to Hills, that is, the work sometimes known as Going North.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

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

I am entirely sympathetic to being unable to do revisions while awaiting the paperwork. I expect the reasons are very different, but I find it very difficult to engage in revisions (which I find very stressful at the best of times) while otherwise anxious or under stress. And your paperwork situation strikes me as precisely the sort of thing that would make me run howling for the hills.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for other eager readers, but I'm happy for you to take the time you need. Far better that you should let the brain lie fallow (to use the analogy Judith Tarr was just talking about at BVC) until it's ready to go, than rush the book out just for the sake of getting it done.

[lcohen]

i am a gigantic fan of the results of your creative process, but you knew that.

looking forward to hearing when and how it will be available!

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Most excellent news!

I cannot imagine doing revisions while waiting for the probable but not certain paperwork, and I don't see why you should be able to, either.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I had been wondering whatever happened to it. Are you thinking of self-publishing?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

YESSS. So excited. Would still love to help out in any capacity you'd like!

[orcaarrow.livejournal.com]

I am sorry your books have been terminated. I am happy that you are going to get to finish the book the way you want. Most of all, be you and take the time you need.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I am so glad this is under your control now. Whatever you do, I am so buying that.

edit to add: I've probably already told you I think Dubious Hills is the perfect novel and I am always talking about it and telling people I wish they could read it. I don't wish hard enough to give away my only copy, though.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I am just glad that the book is going to happen!

[arkuat]

Just allow me to say that I adore what I've heard of the shorter works you've been working on during this hiatus that you complain of. And by heard, I mean hearing you read them out loud in public.

edit to add: what ritaxis edited to add.

[kate_nepveu]

Write as and how you need to; our expectations are our burden and not yours.

[carbonel]

I am very glad you are getting your rights back to both works. I hadn't known that Dubious Hills was in the offing as well.

I look forward to reading whatever final version of the accordion novel you end up with.

[sovay]

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 look forward to the book existing in the form it needs to. Then I look forward to being able to read it.

[zxhrue.livejournal.com]

oh most excellent.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

O happy happy day! (And yes, it is really difficult to settle down into some project if people are faffing around over one's head in their own sweet time.)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Is this going to be a revision of something existing, or a revision of something unpublished?

And how very exciting! Congratulations!

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Your process is your process, if we want your results, we want your process.

Good luck fixing it! Will wait with calm patience to read it, and not pressure you in any way. (Are we there yet?)

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I am excited to read it whenever you are ready to publish it! I also look forward to having an ecopy of The Dubious Hills.

[cat-sanctuary.livejournal.com]

The Dubious Hills wasn't my favorite, but I'd be interested in reading the sequel...as a printed book of course; my eyes would never read a whole novel on a computer screen!

[elisem.livejournal.com]

:beams at you:

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Great news! Hope all proceeds as smoothly as it may.

[thinkum]

Your writing is always worth the wait. :-)

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

CONGRATS! :-)