Returning to the Normal World

which I think is something that won't be possible until this election cycle is over.

I start this brief post with a link to an awesome clip -- Donna Brazile is not going to the back of the bus -- that brought tears to my eyes.

I have a lot to post about, including the Subterranean Press anthology A Fantasy Medley which is available for pre-orders (short fiction by Kelley Armstrong, Robin Hobb, C.E. Murphy, and myself). More on that later.

As we approach Yom Kippur, I close with these words from Isaiah (which I posted last year, too:

This is my chosen fast: to loosen all the bonds that bind men unfairly, to let the oppressed go free, to break every yoke. Share your bread with the hungry, take the homeless into your home. Clothe the naked when you see him, do not turn away from people in need.

May you be inscribed in the Book of Life.

urk urk urk*

Yes, the final revised edit of Traitors' Gate is complete and turned in to my editor.**

I was determined to finish before Yom Kippur so I could go to services without having THAT hanging over my head along with, you know, all the other atonement.

Traitors' Gate completes the "Gate" trilogy. It has a solid ending. However, there is definitely more I have to say about this world.

My current understanding is that the US publication date is scheduled (after being moved around a bit) for August 2009.



* courtesy of aberwyn


** My editor will making a final read through this coming weekend in case there are any final final changes he wants, and I will be making additional changes on the copy edited ms, but in terms of the frightful and intense deadline push I've been making over the last, uh, two months, this is the big milepost I have finally passed.