[LMB] (news& chat) TSK #3 update

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

Back home at last...

    ...and getting caught up.  Sort of.  I hope getting ahead and 
getting behind will achieve a steady-state soon.

    The line-edit of TSK#3 arrived this morning UPS from New York, due 
back all tidied by the end of August or so.   Even my editor notes this 
one is more of a stand-alone, or at least (my opinion) more rounded.  
It's been slotted into the publication schedule for June, 2008.

    Yes, it really does take that long to prepare a book for 
publication.  Besides the edit, and later, the copy-edit, there will be 
the cover art to figure out, assign, and get back, cover and interior 
design to do, sales brochures and plans and ad copy to make -- the Eos 
summer 2008 list is being finalized right now, because the sales stuff 
will go out mid-winter, and all that jacket-stuff has to be final by then.

    It may have acquired a subtitle other than /Grace River. / A fan 
somewhere on the book tour -- I think it was in a hurried hall 
conversation during my one day at Westercon, unless it was a hurried 
hall conversation last weekend at ConVergence -- suggested /Passage/, 
which my editor quite likes, too.  It rather fits in with the one-word 
progression of the prior ones -- /Beguilement, Legacy, Passage/...  What 
d'you all think?  /The Sharing Knife, Vol. 3: Passage./

    My brain is now like a dog trying to chase two rabbits, with both 
the climax of #4 in progress and this task on my plate.  I will try not 
to contract choice-paralysis.

    Ta, L.



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