If I am able to give the status on a project (sold, in print, not yet shopping, not yet finished), I will. I am not in any way shy about going "OH MY GOD YOU GUYS GUESS WHAT?!" I will probably give you this status whether you want it or not, whether you care about it or not, and whether you ask me or not. And just to live up to this statement, my confirmed publications for the remainder of 2011 and the beginning of 2012 are...
One Salt Sea, novel, September. Toby Daye book five.
"Cinderella City," short story, in the collection Human For A Day, December.
"Flower of Arizona," short story, in the collection Westward Weird, February.
Discount Armageddon, novel, March. InCryptid book one.
"We Will Not Be Undersold," short story, in the collection The Modern Fae's Guide to Surviving Humanity, March.
The third Newsflesh book, Blackout, will be published in May 2012.
I have a few other short stories slated for publication, but don't have release dates and/or permission to announce them yet. See, once something is sold, I am unable to tell people until I am given permission from the publisher—it's part of the standard contract. So if I'm not telling you where you can buy something, it's because there's a "can't" involved. Either you can't buy it, or I can't tell you. Either way, please, please believe me when I say that anything I am allowed to share, I share as quickly as I can, to keep my own head from exploding. This includes information about audio books and foreign editions.
Thank you for understanding. And stuff.
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That sounds like your whole approach to writing.
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::happy dance::
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Specifically I am curious about "Let's Pretend" and "Inspiration", both from old issues of Edge of Propinquity, and "Lost" from Ravens in the Library (yes, I know there an audio version of this one available - I'm weird, I prefer to read rather than listen to my stories, unless it is a live reading). And yes, there are two used copies of Ravens in the Library available on Amazon, but devoted fan though I may be, I don't have a spare $288 in my book buying budget this year. More's the pity...
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People are EXHAUSTING. I love that you keep talking and reassuring that 'as soon as I know, so will you' - I do that too, but there's always someone who wasn't in the room at the time. Or gets impatient. Worse. It's not you NOT being clear. (Trying to be reassuring here - it's not that people suck. People want to know. Answering the same question more than 17 times in an hour does something to the brain.)
I trust you implicitly in this. When there's stuff, there's stuff. Yay stuff! It's good! It's enough!
The rest of the time, we got lives. Watched pots, that sort of thing.