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The following are old annoucements which some may find relevant if they're new to my webpage. If you're a regular visitor, then you've already seen these!
The UK version of The Gold Falcon is now out and available in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Unfortunately, there will be no hardbacks this time around. The Marketing Department at HarperCollinsUK have decided, in their infinite non-wisdom, to supply hardbacks only for libraries, via a special bindery. There will be no hardbacks available to the general public, only to libraries. If you are a collector who is annoyed by this, by all means write them -- it's the HarperCollins Voyager line, and the addresses are available on the website. They doubtless will never admit they were wrong, but at least this way you'll feel better. On the positive side, the trade paperback is quite handsome.
Geoff Taylor has put all of his covers for the Deverry series online. I particularly recommended taking a look at his reproduction of the cover for The Gold Falcon. The version on the actual book has been fiddled with in an alarmingly amateurish way -- bad cropping, cheap digital reproduction, while the original is really lovely.
What comes when in Deverry?
I've inadvertently caused some confusion among readers by my system of subtitles for the various volumes. What else do you expect from a long story structured like Celtic art?
Act One: Daggerspell, Darkspell, The Bristling Wood, The Dragon Revenant
Act Two, or "The Westlands": A Time of Exile, A Time of Omens, Days of Blood and Fire, Days of Air and Darkness
Act Three, or "The Dragon Mage": The Red Wyvern, The Black Raven, The Fire Dragon
Act Four, or "The Silver Wyrm": The Gold Falcon, which is the book you have in hand. Barring major earthquakes (I live in San Francisco, after all), heart attacks, and other annoyances, The Spirit Stone and The Shadow Isle will be published in 2007 and 2008.
And for the British editions:
Act One: Daggerspell, Darkspell, Dawnspell, Dragonspell
Act Two, or "The Westlands": A Time of Exile, A Time of Omens, A Time of War, A Time of Justice
Act Three, or "The Dragon Mage": The Red Wyvern, The Black Raven, The Fire Dragon, The Gold Falcon.
There will be two more books to be published in 2007 and 2008, barring fresh disasters: The Spirit Stone and The Shadow Isle
There is now a French edition of Daggerspell, available from amazon.fr or, if you're lucky enough to be French, from your local science fiction book dealer. It's Le Sortilege de la Dague from Mnemnos. Buy it and they might even translate the rest of the series.
After years of never hearing a word from the Russian publishers, I received copies of two of the Deverry books -- numbers 3 and 4! I've never seen the first two. I thought that some of you might enjoy seeing the covers of the two I do have.
I'm very sorry to say that someone has hijacked my email address and is using it make his spam appear to come from me. Because of that, I am shutting down the email address attached to this website. I'm sad to say that I won't be posting a new one, either. I am really going to miss hearing from my readers. And remember, if you get a piece of spam that appears to be from me -- it's not! I do not spam. I hate and abhor spammers. May they all get boils under their fingernails!
If you wish to contact me, please do so by joining my Yahoo Newsgroup.
Now, the odd rumors. First: I am having absolutely no legal troubles over the books (or anything else, so I hope and Goddess willing.) This rumor stems from the running jokes in the "Pronunciation Guide" sections of the novels. To liven those up, I invented a feud between the Deverrian author, a certain Cadda Cerrmor, and an "Elvish professor of Elvish" at the University of Aberwyn. The nasty academic exchanges between the two escalated into a lawsuit -- but this lawsuit is happening in the Deverry of the early 1700s, not here, which is to say that it's not happening at all. It is unreal, untrue, fiction, fantasy, meant to be funny. If you hear or read other wise, heap scorn upon the teller.
Second: the rumor that the new books aren't out because the old ones "didn't sell." This isn't true either. What is true is that Bantam, the original US publisher, decided they didn't want any more of the series after The Fire Dragon, but the series is still selling and quite well in the USA. (So I most spitefully hope they're sorry now.) There was never any such trouble with HarperCollins. The books are late because I was very ill for several years with congestive heart failure and asthma. Writing and wheezing do not work well together. I am now recovering quite well, but my energy does tend to run out earlier in the day than it used to.
I hope this explanation clarifies the state of the series. And once again, I really must thank all of you who've written to me wishing a speedy recovery. I very much appreciate it.
Need a laugh in troubled times? Don't forget kevinandkell.com, a truly funny online-only comic strip. Although it looks like a typical funny-animal strip, these anthropomorphic critters have never forgotten their roots. Carnivores still hunt, and herbivores still graze -- except in the occasional "mixed marriage". Kevin is a rabbit, Kell is a wolf -- how do they make it work?
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