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swan_tower ([personal profile] swan_tower) wrote2013-04-10 12:27 pm

news, posts, ets ceteras, I HAVE A TITLE

I'm drowning in revisions right now (due Monday; I'm almost done; I just need my brain to keep working a few days more), but I'm surfacing long enough to share a few things.

First: YOU GUYS YOU GUYS YOU GUYS I FINALLY HAVE A TITLE. The sequel to A Natural History of Dragons will be called The Tropic of Serpents.

(Now I just need to go put that phrase in the book somewhere.)

Next, story sale! To the charity anthology Neverland's Library, which will be funded through Kickstarter, and 50% of whose profits will go to First Book. The story in question is "Centuries of Kings," based on several Chinese and Japanese folktales.

Finally, I have a couple of posts up in different places, that I hadn't yet linked here. One is over at Darkeva's blog, talking about how I developed the habit of choosing music for a story while working on the original draft of Lies and Prophecy. The other is my biweekly post at BVC, talking about how folklore adds another later to the world around you.

Time for me to go work some more on revising The Tropic of Serpents. (I am going to be using the title incessantly for a little while, now that I have it to use.)
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[personal profile] lizvogel 2013-04-11 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
The Tropic of Serpents

Oh, very cool!

[identity profile] alecaustin.livejournal.com 2013-04-10 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice title! I like how it fits with Natural History.

[identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com 2013-04-10 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Fits, without being repetitive. That was the hard part to pull off.

[identity profile] amysun.livejournal.com 2013-04-10 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, love the new title!

[identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com 2013-04-10 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too. :-)

[identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com 2013-04-10 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome title!

[identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com 2013-04-10 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com 2013-04-10 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Title! I both sympathize and approve.

[identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com 2013-04-10 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I sometimes wish I could just be like a classical music composer, and call things "Victoriain't Fantasy Novel #2 in West African Major."

[identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com 2013-04-10 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Just this week I had a conversation with my aunt the painter about how she can call something, "Untitled #47" if she feels like it, but for some reason writers are expected to be verbal.

[identity profile] alecaustin.livejournal.com 2013-04-10 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait. Writers have to be verbal?

I'm so out of here (he sub-vocalized).

(Anonymous) 2013-04-10 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, title!

Yay, other cool news!

[identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com 2013-04-10 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Thankee!

[identity profile] d-c-m.livejournal.com 2013-04-10 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I just started reading "History of Dragons". Enjoying it very much. :)

[identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
For some reason, I have this suspicion that old!Isabella is your kind of lady. ;-)

[identity profile] d-c-m.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
No really?!?! What would ever make you think that?

LOLOLOL!!

Yeah, I like her a lot.

Every time I read it I see you in that one Cthulu Restoration game and feel right at home in the book.

[identity profile] calico-reaction.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Woot! Excited about the Lady Trent sequel, and congrats on story sale!

[identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] kateelliott.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh! I like it! Very evocative.

[identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I was aiming for something that would give a hint of the region. (And unfortunately, "swamp" is just a terminally unattractive word.)

[identity profile] goodalls-clone.livejournal.com 2013-04-17 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
awesome name! and yes, it must appear on a map, would be fabulous!

[identity profile] martianmooncrab.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
The Tropic of Serpents.

That just has to be on a map... a lovely hand drawn, lettered, illuminated map, and its rolled up in a proper leather carrying tube.

Or a really lethal drink in a very seedy bar.

[identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Why not both? ;-)

And he that sat upon him was called faithful and true

[identity profile] kurayami-hime.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
YAY TITLE!!!

I sent the Darkeva link along to Schwa. You know that the "shiny holographic cover" in the title is sort of my fault, right?

and in righteousness he doth judge and make war

[identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! I hope he is amused at what he wrought.

And yes, I know you're partially responsible, though I don't recall what the shiny holographic cover was on.

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood

[identity profile] kurayami-hime.livejournal.com 2013-04-12 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
The cover was on a WWJD book that provided scriptural guidance for the trials and tribulations of being a teenager. Like peer pressure and sarcasm.

I don't know why everyone kept threatening to give it to me.

and his name is called the Word of God

[identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com 2013-04-13 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
Ahhhhh, right. For some reason I misremembered it as being a CD cover. I should have known it was nothing so innocuous.

Re: And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood

(Anonymous) 2013-05-14 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Because sarcasm is SUCH a trying tribulation.

Oh, the irony.

[identity profile] bookblather.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
HURRAY TITLE

[identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com 2013-04-11 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
HURRAY NOT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT IT ANYMORE

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