Tuesday, June 10, 2003
Yesterday, Murder of Angels got the green light from Penguin. There's a meeting about cover design tomorrow, and decisions are being made as to whether it will be a Spring or Autumn 2004 (MMIV) release. Which, I think, soundly trumps any doubts I was having about writing this book now. It is what I will do and at some future date I will be glad of it. As difficult as the going has been, it still feels very much like a story I need to tell. Like unfinished business of a sort. So, Chapter Five (5; V) looms ahead of me. It's really daunting to think that the cover will be done long before the book is close to finished.
I think I've located two (2; II) people who've not read Silk who are willing to read what's been written of MOA, and, hopefully, they can help me determine how well it's standing alone.
Also, I shelved the sf story I'd begun on Saturday, and started a new one, and it will be for John Pelan's Darkside 3, and I have only ten (10; X) days left in which to get it done. I spent much of yesterday researching the yellow giant Upsilon Andromedae and its three (3; III) known planets, Ups And b, c, and d. I plan to do the first thousand (1,000; M) words today. The story will be called "Night in an Eye of God."
Last night, Spooky and I went out for a midnight sale at Criminal Records at Little Five (5; V) Points, because we're such damned geeks we couldn't wait until today to pick up the new Radiohead cd.
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