kateelliott | Icepunk & the Next Crossroads book (Reply)

First, 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

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!