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Blog postAs of this week, I’ve got exactly one month until my deadline. The rewritten version of Book #1 in the new series is due on June 15th.
It’s pretty common for writers to miss deadlines, but in this case I’ve got additional reasons not to – I’m going to have a lot of personal-life-related stuff starting around mid-June, so if I don’t finish the book by then, everything is going to suddenly get much harder. On top of that, my contracts with my US and UK publishers are for mul -
Blog postThe German translation of Alex Verus continues to move along – this week’s release is volume #8, Bound. It’s coming out on May 16th in paper, ebook, and audio.
The German editions are being released at a steady rate of one every six months, so with this, we should be almost exactly two years from the release of Book #12!
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Blog postStill working away on the rewrite of the new book.
One interesting difference between the start of this series and Alex Verus has been how I’ve handled the characters. In the early Alex Verus books, I made up new characters all the time without thinking about it too much – often they’d be created completely off the top of my head and I’d only come up with backgrounds for them much later, if at all. This gave the characters a lot of room to expand in unexpected directions, -
Blog postFrom: Kevin
Hey Luna just two quick questions.
Have you ever heard of Death Magic and Mind Magic forming a hybrid? I heard Life could with Mind as personal enhancement effects if Death was mixed with Mind and would it be similar to that or not?
And have you ever seen/heard of Elemental Mages creating attacks from behind like Richard did with that Jarnaff the Force Mage and Alex as opposed to the regular hand to sight spells most elemental mages use?
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Blog post. . . by length, that is.
Ethan Sholly has done an in-depth listing of popular fantasy and sci-fi series sorted by their total word counts. He’s still updating it (and some of the series aren’t finished), but here’s a picture of the list at the time of writing, so you can see how Alex Verus compares!
Some of these were surprises to me, others weren’t. I don’t think many people will be surprised to see the Wheel of Time or Discworld towards the top, but I was surpri -
Blog postFrom: Daniel
Okay, so, did the Fateweaver kill Alex and take his memories/personality or what?
Some explanation of how this question came about and why it bugs me enough to ask:
The Epilogue of Risen is written from your point of view, so we aren’t getting any more peeks into the mind of the entity that came out of the Fateweaver merging with Alex like with earlier portions of the book, but “Alex” in that epilogue states that he can no longer path-walk or even focus ve -
Blog postNot much news this week. I’ve been busy with the rewrite, version 5.
‘Quiet’ is how things are likely to stay for the next couple of months. Apart from the next German Alex Verus translation (which is releasing in May), I won’t have anything coming out any time soon, so all of my time and attention will be focused on the new book. On the plus side, these sorts of periods tend to be when I get my best work done.
As I mentioned last week, the deadline I’ve set -
Blog postWell, after seven weeks of notes and planning, I’ve started what I really, really hope is going to be the final rewrite of the new book. I’ve got this one labelled in my notes as version 5, which should be an indication of how many major changes it’s gone through already. Here’s hoping that there isn’t a version 6 (or if it is, it’s minor changes only).
Rewriting is hard work, so I’m not looking forward to this very much. It’s definitely necessary, though – the longe -
Blog postFrom: Celia
Hey Luna,
Have a quick question. I noticed that Morden and Richard both have mansions in Wales, and Alex’s safe house is also there. Why on Earth would Alex have his safe house so close to the homes of two of his biggest enemies?!? Did Morden just walk next door to pressgang Alex? I get that you can’t just chat up Morden and Richard to ask why they bought mansions in Wales… but is there a logical explanation for this, like is land in Wales cheaper and more availabl -
Blog postFor a while now, the main place for online discussion of the Alex Verus series has been the Alex Verus subreddit. I occasionally get questions about why I don’t have a forum here on this website – the short answer is that growing/administering/moderating a forum community takes a lot of time and attention which I can’t easily spare, so I’ve been content to let this sort of thing develop naturally. And over time, the Reddit sub has grown to fill the place a forum would.
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