Icepunk & the Next Crossroads book
Oct. 10th, 2008 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kateelliottFirst, thanks to all of you for your congratulations and good wishes upon completion of Traitors' Gate, the third Crossroads book and the final in the "Gate" trilogy, which I have decided to call it for lack of a better idea.
I spent today dealing with email. Of the answering of email there is no end. If you sent me something days weeks or months ago and you don't get a reply from me by Monday, email me again. I might have lost it. I apologize in advance. Just in general.
Next week I start (actually, continue) work on my icepunk novel (icepunk: steampunk and/or noir fantasy in an Ice Age). I'm not alone in writing in this exciting new sub-genre (which sub-genre![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aberwyn made up when I was telling her about my project.) Mark Charan Newton is a fellow icepunk writer: his Nights of Villjamur is due out in the UK in early 2009. I know there are others.
As for Crossroads: Traitors' Gate, as I have said already and which I will say again, wraps a trilogy. It has a solid ending. Really.
But--because you knew there was a 'but'--I will be writing more books in the Crossroads universe. As I have said elsewhere, the sequence was originally envisioned as a trilogy, a standalone bridge novel, and a trilogy (this second trilogy is the original story I was going to write).
Due to how to certain things fell out quite differently at the end of book #3 than I had intended, however, the standalone novel I had originally envisioned must now be tossed out the window. So I'm going to have to spend a month or two trying to figure out the plot of the book which will take its place. The second trilogy will remain pretty much as planned.
Tomorrow: an upcoming short story anthology!
I spent today dealing with email. Of the answering of email there is no end. If you sent me something days weeks or months ago and you don't get a reply from me by Monday, email me again. I might have lost it. I apologize in advance. Just in general.
Next week I start (actually, continue) work on my icepunk novel (icepunk: steampunk and/or noir fantasy in an Ice Age). I'm not alone in writing in this exciting new sub-genre (which sub-genre
aberwyn made up when I was telling her about my project.) Mark Charan Newton is a fellow icepunk writer: his Nights of Villjamur is due out in the UK in early 2009. I know there are others.As for Crossroads: Traitors' Gate, as I have said already and which I will say again, wraps a trilogy. It has a solid ending. Really.
But--because you knew there was a 'but'--I will be writing more books in the Crossroads universe. As I have said elsewhere, the sequence was originally envisioned as a trilogy, a standalone bridge novel, and a trilogy (this second trilogy is the original story I was going to write).
Due to how to certain things fell out quite differently at the end of book #3 than I had intended, however, the standalone novel I had originally envisioned must now be tossed out the window. So I'm going to have to spend a month or two trying to figure out the plot of the book which will take its place. The second trilogy will remain pretty much as planned.
Tomorrow: an upcoming short story anthology!