Ah, Christmas. When I was a spry young thing I used to work 7 days a week, more or less, and Christmas was faintly annoying because it’s very hard to write while drunk and food is oozing out of your every orifice. But now I’m a raddled old shell of a man I actually have things like weekends and sometimes, rarely, even holidays! So right now I’m officially downing my quill for a week or so, the better to wallow in my own crapulence.
I said crapulence, not cr… ah, forget it.
Progress update: 39 chapters of The Ace of Skulls have been clubbed to death; 7 or 8 of the little critters are still gnashing at my ankles. I’d say it’s gonna come in about the same length as The Black Lung Captain, a little shorter than The Iron Jackal. Still well on course for an autumn release next year. We’ve already had the cover art in and it looks ace. I’ll post it up once the designers have done their bit.
Broken Sky re-edit is crawling along slowly as I’m only really doing it on trains and buses and so forth: am concentrating on getting the Ketty Jay stuff done for the moment. I’m some way into Act 2. I’d forgotten, like, everything that happens in that book.
No other news, really. It’ll pick up in the new year, honest!
Merry Christmas everybody!
Heh, merry Christmas!!! Have some nice, relaxing Holidays! :>
Have a Merry Christmas!
Also, I want to throw some encouragement at you for the Broken Sky re-edit. Broken Sky got me into reading as a kid (it was my “Harry Potter” if you will), and I can’t wait to read it on my Kindle and buy copies for all of my friends!
Merry Christmas Chris!
Hi!
So me and my younger brother were talking today saying “man remember those Broken Sky books we read when we were younger? ” and that we really wanted to read them again so I came on here and seen you are doing a re-edit! I am really excited about it!! So I’ll be looking forward to buying it because those books were seriously awesome!^-^
Have A Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas!….If the world doesn’t end tomorrow
Merry Christmas!
Hey, Chris! Just wanted to say that I finished reading the Iron Jackal – and it was AWESOME! I really can’t wait for the The Ace of Skulls to come out.
And, the Ketty Jay series gets better and better! Each book is so much interesting than the previous one. I reckon it’ll be awesome if the Ketty Jay books were made into films (I know you get that a lot, haha, but still). I have a feeling it will be a successful film franchise!
Broken Sky cannot get here soon enough!
Yeah Christmas and I got…no Chris Wooding books. Ugg. My parents did have a reasonable explanation though. Even though they knew which titles I didn’t have they didn’t know which BOOK I wanted. Hard back, paper back? This picture that picture? They were pretty sure they would make a mistake ordering for someone as picky as I am.
Another random piece of news: My local bookstore rearranged the shelves and moved “W” books to eye level. So yeah the KJ books are right where people can see’em.
I also saw the KJ series in the teen section? I guess no one at the store has actually read those books…
@Brooklyn
Yeah, I also saw the KJ series in the teen section at my library! haha. And except for the fact that the characters aren’t actually teens, there is no reason why it wouldn’t appeal to young adults.
@AJ
Yes the KJ series is definitely suited for teens and adults. It just worries me when I see the ten and eleven year olds go near the KJ books…I just want to yell “You’re not THAT mature!”
Oh could you imagine a little twelve year old buying Retribution Falls? Oh the fear…
Let ‘em read! We need a generation of freebooters and degenerates with hearts of gold. Erm… As long as they don’t take after Pinn.
Am I the only one who thinks Chris died?
I think he has. The turkeys have gone a little mental over the Christmas period and ate him.
Hmmmm I wouldn’t know, I’m vegetarian. Maybe the fans finally caught up…
I’ve just moved house. It’s virtually the same thing
So, Brooklyn, are you saying that the fans ate Chris ad not the turkeys?
Now YOU have a twisted mind. I thought the fans trampled him.
Good to see your not dead Chris.