Sat, 12 Jun 2004
Yee-haw!
The first UK hardcover copy of Singularity
Sky flopped through my letter box this morning.
How I feel ...? Indescribable.
I've been writing and selling fiction for two decades. In the
past decade I've worked as a technical author and freelance
computer journalist (among other things), and sold ten books.
But this is the first time an edition of one of my
novels has appeared in book form from a British publisher.
I began working on this novel in, if I remember correctly,
1995. Reworked it heavily in 1996-97, and had it substantially
complete by 1998. By 2000, I had a book deal with Big Engine,
who subsequently went into liquidation one month before it
could be published. In 2003 it finally appeared in hardcover
in the US, where it has done well for itself. But it has taken
nearly a decade for it to reach this point.
Luckily British readers won't have to wait as long for
the next book. Iron
Sunrise comes out next month in the US, and the UK
hardcover's scheduled for next February, only six months later
(rather than a year behind). By the time Accelerando
comes out in July 2005, the British and American publication
schedules should be synchronised, but I've effectively got
three SF novels appearing in the UK over the next twelve
months. (And something in me wants to snort, "typical -- you
wait ten years and then three come along at once".)
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