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Fire Along the Sky, and other bits of news

The paperback edition of Fire Along the Sky is due out in November, and here's the cover. The ever watchful Rachel must have seen that it was up on Amazon, because she asked if I liked it.

I like it better than some of my covers, but I'm not sure that it gives a sense of what the novel is about. This cover makes me think of the wild west and vultures and mesas and deserts.

So now I have good news and less good news. Not bad news, really. Good news or not-so-bad news first? Good, I think.

While I was in Manhattan this last week I signed the contracts for Tied to the Tracks, which will now be coming out with Putnam. That wasn't the original plan, you may remember. Bantam has published all the Wilderness novels and indicated great interest in Tied to the Tracks, but after lots of talk and back and forth, there was a major Change of Plans.

Leona Nevler is my new editor at Putnam, which means she's the person who acquired Tied to the Tracks (and also Pajama Jones). Leona has been in the business a long time, she's insightful and sharp and funny and elegant in a Jackie Kennedy kind of way. Of course, that meant I was doomed to spill something -- not once, but twice -- on my white blouse during lunch. But she made light of it, which was very kind.

So the bottom line is that Queen of Swords may well be my last novel for Bantam, but I have a new nest at Putnam/Berkeley, and I feel comfortable there already. Which brings me to the other news.

I think I have to face the fact that I'm not going to get Queen of Swords to Bantam by October. I hope to get it done by January, though. This means that QS won't be out until (at the eariest) the fall of 2006. I get a dozen emails every day assuring me that y'all are eager eager eager to read QS, but you can be sure of two things: I'm just as eager to finish it as you are to read it, and I'll do everything in my power to make sure it's worth the wait.

What I'm hoping is that you'll find Tied to the Tracks (which should be out in the spring or summer) a suitable stopgap.

July 24, 2005 01:45 PM

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Posted by: Lanna Lee Maheux-Quinn at July 24, 2005 08:04 PM

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