About five minutes ago, I sent the manuscript for the third book in the Alafair Tucker series to my editor for her first reading.\u00c2\u00a0 What an unutterable relief.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I get to wait nervously for her impressions.\u00c2\u00a0 For the other books, there was\u00c2\u00a0some rewriting involved, which in both cases I was able to finish in two or three weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 I dearly hope that is the case with this book.<\/p>\n
I’ll wait until I hear the verdict before posting any details about the book, but the provisional title is The Drop Edge of Yonder<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 As most of you Dear Readers have probably realized, I attempt to choose titles that are ethnic and somewhat colorful, and I did try to do that with the new book.\u00c2\u00a0 The title is taken from an archaic phrase once used in Texas.\u00c2\u00a0It means “the brink of death.” I like it very much.\u00c2\u00a0 But when I told anyone what I was thinking, about half the time I’d get a blank stare.\u00c2\u00a0 So I was feeling uncertain about it, until I attended an authors’ roundtable a few weeks ago.\u00c2\u00a0 The moderator went around the room and asked each of the dozen or so authors there to tell something about her or his work, and while I was speaking, someone asked me about my next title.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0I girded my loins and spoke, and most of the people in the room went “Oooh!”\u00c2\u00a0 I took that as approval and flicked the sweat from my brow.\u00c2\u00a0 So for the time being, Drop Edge of Yonder<\/em> it is.<\/p>\n It seems strange to be getting ready for the third book when the second book, Hornswoggled,<\/em> just came out in September, and I’m not even done with the publicity junket for it.\u00c2\u00a0 I only have two events left to do this year, though: one tomorrow (Dec. 13) at Tempe Public Library, and one on Saturday in Glendale, AZ.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll be the keynote speaker at the Glendale event, which is\u00c2\u00a0for\u00c2\u00a0authors whose short stories are being published in\u00c2\u00a0an anthology entitled Stories of the Valley<\/em>.<\/p>\n I’m working on the presentations right now, but after Saturday, I hope to be able to buy a Christmas present or two for my long-suffering husband.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I’m done until after the holidays, unless I have a giant rewrite to do.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I have to get started on Book Four.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About five minutes ago, I sent the manuscript for the third book in the Alafair Tucker series to my editor for her first reading.\u00c2\u00a0 What an unutterable relief.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I get to wait nervously for her impressions.\u00c2\u00a0 For the other books, there was\u00c2\u00a0some rewriting involved, which in both cases I was able to finish in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writer-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2H58s-12","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}