Writer. Scientist. Thoroughly Disappointing Flesh Muppet.
This past week at the day job was utterly crazytown bananapants. Yikes.
So, just a quick update to mention that copyedits on Milkweed #3, Necessary Evil, are finished. As with the first two Milkweed books, I was lucky to land a really superb copyeditor who went to great lengths to make me appear (somewhat) literate.
That’s another milestone on the way to publication. And a pretty major one. Next stop, galleys! And before I know it, the calendar will say “April” and the book will be out. Hooray!
Now that The Coldest War is officially out in myriad forms (okay, 3), I thought it would be fun to share the original cover-art concept for the book. I’ve never posted this before.
Below the cut: a glimpse of publishing history as it might have been.
OK—as you might notice from reading Boing Boing this morning, today’s the day: at long last The Coldest War is finally in US bookstores and ebookstores today! It’s now available in hardcover and DRM-FREE ebook editions. Hooray! [The Orbit UK/ANZ edition is scheduled for February, 2013. And the US/UK editions of Necessary Evil are both scheduled for April, 2013.]
It seems like a strange thing to celebrate, since the audiobook has been available from Audible since January, and since copies of the book arrived in readers’ gardens as early as last week. But today makes it about as official as it can get. So again, hooray! I’ve been waiting a long time for this, so I’m just pleased as pleased can be. And The Coldest War is as published as a book can be.
Purchase links, and more about DRM-free ebooks, below the cut.
Okay, so I’m a little giddy this morning. It’s not every day I get to celebrate a book launch. (And the first of two book launches in the same week, no less.)
But today I get to do it, and so I am: Today marks Bitter Seeds’s debut from Orbit UK! Calloo, callay, oh frabjous day.
Hello and welcome, new readers! Information, and many links, reside below the cut.
Today turned out to be a pretty cool day.
First, somebody sat next to me on the bus to work this morning in order to tell me about his work studying UFOs. In all honesty that was the most interesting bus ride I’ve had in months if not years. The story featured reclusive billionaries (well, okay, one reclusive billionaire), astronauts, and a Las Vegas showgirl, too. Far out, man.
And then I found out that The Coldest War is a top pick this month at RT Book Reviews.