I've donated one first-edition hardcover copy of each of The Dubious Hills and Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary to the Con or Bust auction. Bidding opens on May 25th. Even if you don't need a copy of either book, there is the usual amazing variety of other things to bid on -- dozens of books, of course, some signed, some not yet released by ( Read more... )

Hey, you guys, my 1994 novel The Dubious Hills, one of the prequels to the new novel Going North is available for pre-order from Smashwords. There will be a Kindle and a trade paperback edition available as well, but we did the Smashwords editions first this time, since people who wanted those formats had to wait around for Juniper, Gentian, and ( Read more... )

So I'm going over the scanned text of The Dubious Hills to catch errors and to confirm its correspondence with the originally published version. Early on, something reminds Arry of "one of Beldi's paintings." I had forgotten that Beldi ever painted anything, and was considering this in the light of the short stories (all striving to be novels, ( Read more... )

David's been blogging the process of reissuing my out-of-print books. Here are the entries ( Read more... )

Hi, you guys. I'm sorry that I haven't posted in so long. There's no particular excuse other than general harriedness ( Read more... )

I have, not exactly in my hand right now, but very near by, and honestly I think I might sleep with it under my pillow, the termination paperwork for The Dubious Hills AND the cancelled and as-yet unpublished sequel to Hills, that is, the work sometimes known as Going NorthThis has been imminent for some weeks now and I have been trying to figure ( Read more... )

It's a hardcover first edition of The Dubious Hills. Here's the link:

http://con-or-bust.livejournal.com/119195.html

This is the copy that I reread and referred to while writing Going North, the joint sequel to Hills and The Whim of the Dragon. It's in good shape, but not pristine. I ( Read more... )