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May 2008

The Magician's Apprentice has been delivered

After months working through weekends, weeks of working evenings as well, the book is finally done and delivered!

Of course, it's not done yet. There's all the editing to be done. I have to draw a map, put together a glossary, write a blurb and have a new author photo taken. Lots of work for me to do, still.

Then there's the design and lay out. The cover. The blurb. The printing. The marketing. And all those magical and mysterious things a publisher has to do to make a story into a physical book, and get it out to the shops. I emailed my editor a few weeks back to check the release date. It will be a worldwide release, in February 09.

In the meantime I have SO much to catch up on. There's this website to update, including a new, more accurate blurb for TMA and a sample chapter or exerpt, updated pub dates and covers, and a new blog program so I can post news without tearing my hair out and provide an RSS feed.

And, of course, I get to start The Ambassador's Mission, book one of the Traitor Spy Trilogy. Writing TMA has given me lots of ideas to incorporate into the sequel. It's going to be fun tying together all the threads of history, magic and characters between the three stories.