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I’ve been awfully scarce around the internets lately. Part of that is just introvert crash (I went to way more cons and meetings last year than I ever have, and done much, much more socializing than usual, which was fabulous and I loved getting to meet people, but it’s exhausting), but part of it has been me trying to actually finish writing Ancillary Mercy.
I have finished Ancillary Mercy. And turned it in to my editors.
So, what’s next? Well, pretty much everyone wants to know that. Including me, myself. I’m not sure. Certainly I’ll have notes from my editors, and I’ll do revisions, and copyedits when those come around. After that, well, we’ll see!
I made a wordle of AM, which I am tempted to post, but I’m not sure if I should. Maybe I’ll wait a few months?
Next! You all may remember that Subterranean is doing a limited edition hardcover of Ancillary Justice.
The other day I got a look at a draft of the cover art. The cover is going to be by Lauren St Onge and it’s fabulous! But I can’t show it to you yet. I will as soon as I can, though!
In other news–there are now six Ancillary Justice-related playlists on 8tracks. Check them out!
Also–fairly trivial, but just to answer some speculation or questions I’ve seen here or there–I was an active member of a CJ Cherryh fan community under the name hautdesert, and I still count the folks in that community among my friends. Before that I was also–this is perhaps a bit less obvious, and a bit more random–the proprietor of a Peter Gabriel fansite, and during that period I went under the name “Eve.” I had a few moments of fan glory during that time, the biggest being the time a reporter interviewing PG presented him with printouts of part of my fansite for him to react to. Not that the site itself was anything special–if I tell you it was originally on Geocities, that will tell you all you need to know about that part of my internet career. Hey, we all have to start somewhere!
The folks from Shejidan already know I’m haut, but if you know me from Gabeweb, here’s a “hi!” and a friendly wave.
Mirrored from Ann Leckie.
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Date: 2015-01-19 07:26 pm (UTC)\o_
*waves at haut*
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Date: 2015-01-19 08:21 pm (UTC)*waves back*
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Date: 2015-01-20 12:46 am (UTC)Congratulations on finishing Ancillary Mercy
There can be blues after finishing a big project, like, oh, a major trilogy, for example. And by blues I mean soul-crushing depression. Hope it's not that way for you, but if it is, I ust want to let you know that things do get better.
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Date: 2015-01-20 02:50 pm (UTC)Right now, I just feel really weirdly at loose ends. Like, for months all my back-brain cycles were chewing on this and now I'm like, "I have an idle moment, I should be thinking about...wait, no, that's done. What am I supposed to think about now??" I figure that'll go away in a few days.
I haven't had any blues yet! But I fully expect them.
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Date: 2015-01-20 02:54 pm (UTC)re: blues, well hell. Let's see if we get you to avoid them. (But yeah... they are hard to at the end of something big. Whatever the big thing might be.)
**Creator's apparent fondness for Within Temptation is making me very nostalgic for my younger daughter's early teen years :-)