News

Some good. Some not so good.

Good news: I’ve finally re-released Quarter Share. Half Share is on deck and should be out in the next few days.

Bad news: No BaltiCon for me this year. My elder daughter’s high school graduation is that weekend and the ceremony falls smack in the middle of BaltiCon making it unfeasible for me to make the cross-country trek to attend.

In other news: I hope everybody takes a few moments to reflect on the blessings of the year just past and to consider how to look for awesomeness in the coming one. Whatever holidays you celebrate, may you find peace, love, and good cheer.

Ishmael Wang Is Coming Home

According to US Postal Service records, they delivered a priority mail letter to the offices of Ridan Publishing yesteday morning at 10:59 AM. That letter informed them of my decision to take back the rights to publish the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series. Effective November 6, 2012, their license to publish my books expires.

That means at least three things.

One, I’m going to be tied up getting the books in shape to re-publish under my own brand. That means new covers, a new layout, and a scrub up on editing.

Two, I’m getting some other works out between now and then. Zypheria’s Call – book two of the Tanyth Fairport adventures – should be released to ebook this weekend–assuming I don’t lose too much more time to the distraction that is swirling around. I’ll have the paper version up as soon as I can get a clean galley proof out of CreateSpace and those will go out to all the normal paperback venues. The podcast version will be later still because Podiobooks only accepts completed works now. I’ll need to finish audio production entirely before I can ask Evo to release it. South Coast is on tap for the first Saturday in November and I should be able to get a more organized release of that.

Three, I’ve got editors and cover artists on tap but this isn’t going to be a slap-dash process. I’m going to work hard to get Captain’s Share out by Christmas, but it’s silly to publish book five when books one through four aren’t available. Honestly, I don’t think publishing seven books between now and the end of the year is even possible. While that sounds self-defeating, I’m trying to be realistic.

It may seem counter intuitive to spend time publishing South Coast. I’m doing that to buy some time. This is a book that is completely unencumbered by contractual agreements and I can proceed in good faith with delivering this story in print. It’s an olive branch to you, the fans, who’ve been so patient for so long. It’s something I can deliver.

Right now, delivering something seems more important than more delays in delivering anything. By the time the 30-day timer has expired, we’ll know more about what can/will happen after that.

Stay tuned. I’ll keep you posted.

New Audio Work

It’s August already and I haven’t updated this site since I rolled it out. Shame on me.

But lucky for you because there’s news!

Zypheria’s Call will be coming out in ebook and paper formats in the next few days. I’m in the process of audio production now and hope to get it done by the end of the month. If you’d like a little taste you can find it over at Lammas Wood

And two new links on my audio narration page.

I’ve been remiss in not posting the link to my reading of Illimitable Dominion for Tales to Terrify #25. That went out at the end of June.

And just recently Mur Lafferty asked me to narrate a story for Escape Pod and Connoisseurs of the Ecclectic was posted just this week.

If that’s not enough, PseudoPod asked me for a reading and it’s in their queue. I’ll let you all know when it’s available.