I am very happy about this development, as you can imagine. SotBL was my first full-length novel, written in a feverish three months almost ten years ago. Since then it's undergone a lot of editing, almost all of which was fixing the the first half wherein I committed every sin expected of a beginning fantasy author. Now the first half is about a quarter of what it was, and the sinning has been reduced to a tolerable din.
Pyr is the SF&F arm of Prometheus, one of my favorite publishers. Lou Anders is a Hugo-award winning editor. This book could not have landed in better hands.
FICTION: FANTASYMicheal Planck’s debut flintlock fantasy SWORD OF THE BRIGHT LADY, an unassuming forty-year old mechanical engineer becomes a pawn in a cosmic game when he stumbles into a world where he must pit wit and rudimentary firearms against magic and monsters to open a pathway home to his wife, to Lou Anders at Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books, in a nice deal, by Kristin Nelson at Nelson Literary Agency (World English).
WOOOOO!!
ReplyDeleteYa that's pretty much my reaction too.
ReplyDeleteAt this rate, I might actually have to write the 3rd one! :D
Hell yes!! I bought Kassa Gambit, and I will DEFINITELY buy SotBL!!!!
ReplyDeleteWoot! That's one! :D
ReplyDeleteGood to hear from you, J. Mmmm... now I am thinking enchiladas...
I though you told your legion of adoring nephew fans that if you could sell the first one you would finish the third
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure I said I'd write the third one when I got paid for it, b****s.
ReplyDelete:D