[LMB] (news & chat) _Passage_ has a pub date

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

_Passage_ has a pub date...

I now have official publication dates for the mass market paperback of 
_TSK#2: Legacy_ and the first hardcover release of _TSK#3: Passage_: 
both have the street date of April 22, 2008.

(Rounded to May 2008 in some listings.)

8 months, give or take.

And in other news, the completed and somewhat cleaned-up submission 
draft of _TSK#4: Title To Be Announced Later_ went off to my editor. 
Spring of 2009, for the rest of the world. Whew! Now I'm overdue for a 
*long* break.

The first-edit run-through was mostly going through the manuscript and 
entering in my file all the little changes I'd marked in the margins 
over the previous months as the thing was slowly growing. The last 
chapters haven't had as much time to "cure", but they might as well be 
doing so sitting on the editor's desk as mine. Once the thing is shifted 
from my desk to hers I'm off the clock, till it comes back on the tide. 
Probably before year's end, but that will depend on what else is in her 
schedule; books with earlier pub dates will naturally take precedence.

Having used the exciting completion of the book as an excuse to put off 
doing all the life-maintenance stuff I didn't want to do in the first 
place, well, that bulwark is now removed and they're all here at once. 
I'm scratching away at the chores pile, between reading books I didn't 
write and watching DVDs. Romances, anime, and nature programming, so 
far. I'm so not looking for a challenge...

I do have a big trip coming up at the end of October to Columbus for the 
Ohioana Library bash (more on that later) and on to Saratoga Springs for 
World Fantasy, with a stop in between to see relatives. Since that 
involves flying, I can't address the ear surgery till it's done, which 
is another call-up-and-schedule chore sitting in my queue at present. 
And the 3 writing chores, 2 introductions and another interview I've 
promised. Still ducking them.

So far this week I've managed to call the tree guys, get the map in 
progress, schedule my flights for WFC, give blood, hit the library, give 
a friend's short story a once-over, do a few house things, and other 
activities now fading into the mental compost. Well, it will all work 
itself out in a little more time.

Now, back to BBC nature programs from Netflix.  Next up: more Atlas of 
South America

Ta, L.