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I really like to plow straight through the first draft, however often the plot suddenly turns on itself and surprises me, figuring to fix it in the rewrite.  Sometimes, however, there are just too many unexpected changes, and I have to stop and get things in line before I got on.
Iorich just did that, around [...]

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Matthew Klahn was the 17th entry.  Thank you to all who offered.
(Now I have to read the thing, and I hope get some of the answers I need for the my next project).

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Just wanted to mention that I still haven’t gotten 17 emails.  A signed personalized copy of Jhegaala will go to the 17th person who offers to send me a copy of Colin Turnbull’s The Forest People.
 

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I’m running a small contest here. Two prizes, both of them signed and personalized copies of Jhegaala (now that I have my copies).
One copy will go to the seventeenth person (only one entry per person) to email me offering to send me a copy of The Forest People by Colin Turnbull. I [...]

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…that Steve is too shy to tell you about himself — Jhegaala’s first printing has already sold out and gone to reprints.
p.s. Watch Dr. Horrible today. Tell your friends.
Correction: PNH very nicely wrote to me to say that what has happened is that actually orders from bookstores exceeded the initial amount printed, and Jhegaala has [...]

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I now have a copy of Jhegaala.  The cover is lovely, and the graphic representation of the Cycle came out great.  My thanks to Steve Hickman, Silver Croft, and Tor production.
The copy is signed.  The person to whom I signed it Knows Who He Is.  Now I just need his address and I can send [...]

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…patting himself on the back. Jon Lincicum, on the Dragaera listserve, said this:
“I am convinced that if Steve had written the Bible, it would not contain the words ‘God’ or ‘Jesus’, and while Moses might get mentioned, he would only ever appear offstage.”
Heh heh heh

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Okay, check this out:
Toby Buckell: You go, dude!
The sort of blatant, obnoxious racism displayed by the editor of Helix makes me, as Bear says, ashamed for my genre.  Hypocrisy would be an improvement, because at least it would indicate some degree of embarrassment for attitudes and beliefs that no one today should be able to [...]

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Another place to talk about the book.

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A place to talk about the book.

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