Book Deal!

[pameladean]

All right, the offer on the sequel to The Dubious Hills and The Whim of the Dragon has been made, chewed on, tossed in the air, lost under the sofa, and retrieved. A deal is done.

The manuscript is due August 1, 2006, with the hardcover to be published in 2007 and the paperback in 2008. Yes, those dates are very far away, but I have to write the thing, and I don't do that either quickly or consistently.

I am smug and delighted.

People who tendered congratulations when the deal was only beginning need not feel obliged to do so again, but no discouragement is intended.

Pamela

Comments

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I hope so, too. Tam Lin is my favorite of your books, but I consider The Dubious Hills your best. Though it is, of course, much too soon to make a final pronouncement on either place, since you've books to write yet. :)

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

TAM LIN is my favorite too. Probably THE DUBIOUS HILLS is the most ambitious, but I'm not sure that it's _better_.

I love your short (well, shorter) stories too. "Owlswater" is haunting, and "This Fair Gift" is so well-characterized and funny and strange (and I love reading about those clothes), and the Nerissa/Jehane/Deleon stories are so beautifully subtle and well-observed. (I can't say that my family is really similar to the Bendedictis, but the tortured and dysfunctional ring reminiscent and true.

Oh, just go write more of anything.

[pameladean]

The author's perspective is actually less valuable than, well, anybody else's, but somehow I feel I Must Say that my own favorite is Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary -- my favorite is always the latest one -- and I think that in a lot of ways Hills probably is the best. I am haplessly attached to all of them, however.

Rachel, thank you for your kind remarks about the short stories. I still mean to write the Liavek novel. My agent thinks it hasn't gelled and that it should be finished before being marketed, so I'm hoping that when I get stuck on Going North, I can sneak in some work on the other.

Pamela