If you wait long enough, you see, you will discover more about what's been happening. Here is a goulash of news-related stuff.

The most exciting thing is that [1] Lou Anders and [2] Pyr have bought the American rights to Gradisil. It should be appearing some time next year. This is my first American sale for a novel, and I'm very thrilled: partly because Pyr are such a fantastic press and partly because Lou is such a wonderful individual. So, you see, this is more than good news; this is Astounding good news.

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And in other news ... I recently finished a new parody for Gollancz, to be published soon. This one is called [3] Dr Whom, [4] or E.T. Shoots And Leaves. You can see what we’re going for with that one.

But other writing has also been going on. Specifically I’ve taken two consecutive short-stories of mine, ‘Swiftly’ and ‘Eleanor’, and started adding quantities of new material to flesh them out into a fully blossoming cod-Victorian novel, a work that is growing and expanding beneath my pliant fingers to become an expansive period-precise meditation on the nature of storytelling itself. My ultimate aim is to have a trefoil: [5] Swiftly: Stories, Swiftly: a Novel and Swiftly: a Poem, that last one being a full-throated Browningite piece that I can’t imagine anybody will much want to read. But the novel is coming along nicely, I think, and should be finished this summer. Then we’ll see.

And there's some other news: my name has been added to the author list on the estimable [6] Valve. Go there. Look at the list of contributors on the left hand side. See?

Cause for some nineteenth-century riding around and shooting-off of pistols to celebrate:

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