Publishing Time Vortex
I feel like I’ve been caught in a publishing time-vortex most of this year.
I thought all the excitement for New Pompeii would happen in 2016, but it continued into this year with the publication of two foreign editions (Nove Pompeje in Czech Republic and Uj Pompeji in Hungary). Reviews in the Czech Republic appear to have been good and I await the verdict from the Hungarians (where it’s out sometime soon, not sure of the exact date). I was also shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the British Fantasy Awards for New Pompeii, and longlisted for the British Science Fiction Awards. Added to this, New Pompeii was released as a mass market paperback in the US in October. So what I’d thought would all be contained in 2016 lasted throughout 2017 as well!
Empire of Time (the book I’d expected to be the focus of 2017) was finished in the early part of the year (by which I mean all the edits, I actually finished the book in mid-2016) and published in June - followed by a round of publicity. Overall, I’ve been pleased with how the book has been received.
Finally, I’ve been spending most of my free time in 2017 writing The Synapse Sequence. This is not part of the New Pompeii series, but is instead a stand-alone book concerned with near-future crime. Hopefully I’ll get to say more about this soon - the book has now entered the start of editing cycle (structural - line edit - copy edit - proofread).
So that’s my time vortex – one year, with my attention split between three books: one of which came out in 2016 and rumbled on, another finished in 2016 and published in 2017, and a third written in 2016/17 and due out next year! It was hard at certain points – particularly March when NP was published in Czech – to keep track of it all!
Cheers!
I thought all the excitement for New Pompeii would happen in 2016, but it continued into this year with the publication of two foreign editions (Nove Pompeje in Czech Republic and Uj Pompeji in Hungary). Reviews in the Czech Republic appear to have been good and I await the verdict from the Hungarians (where it’s out sometime soon, not sure of the exact date). I was also shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the British Fantasy Awards for New Pompeii, and longlisted for the British Science Fiction Awards. Added to this, New Pompeii was released as a mass market paperback in the US in October. So what I’d thought would all be contained in 2016 lasted throughout 2017 as well!
Empire of Time (the book I’d expected to be the focus of 2017) was finished in the early part of the year (by which I mean all the edits, I actually finished the book in mid-2016) and published in June - followed by a round of publicity. Overall, I’ve been pleased with how the book has been received.
Finally, I’ve been spending most of my free time in 2017 writing The Synapse Sequence. This is not part of the New Pompeii series, but is instead a stand-alone book concerned with near-future crime. Hopefully I’ll get to say more about this soon - the book has now entered the start of editing cycle (structural - line edit - copy edit - proofread).
So that’s my time vortex – one year, with my attention split between three books: one of which came out in 2016 and rumbled on, another finished in 2016 and published in 2017, and a third written in 2016/17 and due out next year! It was hard at certain points – particularly March when NP was published in Czech – to keep track of it all!
Cheers!
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