It was in the book with the kids’ visit to Tirnamardi.
I forgot to enter it in the Little Black Book.
It was where Aseida lived.
And by that you know that Jane is doing a pass through the Hinder Stars and I’m outlining basic setup for another Bren book. I can’t tell you any more, because YOU have one more book between Convergence and Resurgence. Or is it Emergence? 😉 It will all make sense eventually.
Asien’dalun
You are RIGHT. I remember now. 😉 of course.
Good news about another Bren book in our future!
Had to look it up… I knew it off hand but forgot the apostrophe. Score one for Kindle! (I couldn’t carry around a hundred books on a roadtrip otherwise!)
Best regards to you and Jane! Write on!
CJ, I’m assuming you have final manuscripts on disk. Might I suggest making a cop of the file and searching the copy for keywords near that point? I’m pretty sure you’ve thought of that already. Finding another word near those, when you can’t recall the word or if it was spelled right or not, yeah, is a pain.
(I am elsewhere in the sequence and didn’t read that book, so I’m little help, sorry.)
I’ve resolved to study EPUB3 and if I get that and Spanish as regular study habits again, I’ll add PHP to the study topics. I am still trying to get myself back to old reading habits for fiction and non-dic. I keep doing on personal projects for work or personal interest instead of making the time. This must change.
Did not hear back enough abut eye care; they are hung up n insurance, so this is still on the hot-potato to-do list.
Big hurray on the pass-through read/edit on Hinder Stars. — Do you have any idea of upcoming publication dates for books currently in the pipeline, or are they not to that stage yet to have a target pub date? (That is, Foreigner books past Convergence, the new A/U novels, anything else, say in anthologies.)
If you get the overwhelming urge to write short stories, fans would love that too. 🙂 (Geez, so demanding and needy….)
I am sure fans would love to see new things from Jane and Lynn when they get the chance, find the inspiration.
Hmm, one of the font drafts I’ve been working on is great, but test prints showed I’ve got it thinner than I want the thin strokes to be. This means I either redraft it or I say it’s a headline display version. The latter is likely what I’ll go with. It looks good, I’m proud of it, but it looks and feels too thin to me for body text sizes. Why I did not realize that sooner in the process, I chalk up to being new at this still. But overall, it’s been valuable and I do like the draft for larger sizes. Just means it pushes my goals further ahead in time than I want. Which means finding a way to compensate, maybe with display faces in fewer styles, to get something out there producing income sooner / faster. Another font draft started with small caps and now needs the upper and lowercase in that weight, before I can go to the next milestones. Again, learning, and the creative process is strange on how it darts, for me, from one thing to the next. (I think Jane and I may be similar in that way.) I feel pressured to get things done, I feel my creative process is darting around round-robin instead of sticking with one project and completing, and everyday life intrudes, as do font ideas and other projects, plus rebuilding my life. So I am hoping to find some balance and a better path to productivity and satisfaction.
How you and other writers and artists manage this and stay producing regularly is something I still aspire to.
Goober’s keyboard-walking editorial comment was, “q1,” which could be many things. Hahah. First quarter of next year? Queen Elizabeth I? Q from TNG? Or some grand feline remark? Or he just wants attention, more likely. LOL. If, however, he’s secretly a feline Descartes or Voltaire, well, kitten, get to typing already, will ya? Pay for yer own dang tuna and kibble! 😛 :o) (Sell my art? Oh, you betcha. Paying bills, a roof over my head, food on the table, these are good things. Sell that art, baby.)
We don’t know the pub date on Alliance Rising—it’s still in rough draft: my bits and Jane’s are interspersed with each other, and I’ve sketched an ending because that has to remain a little flexible as we go through the next process, in which she and I make passes through to add ideas we’ve had and to pull the whole thing into one ‘voice’ so it’s smooth and of one texture. We’re enjoying the writing.
@BlueCatShip — I think you have the same thing I have: ADOLAS*.
(*Attention Deficit Oh, Look A Squirrel).
That’s a good one.
Do you often talk about what is and isn’t in the Black Book? For example, even though it’s not in print, did Bren’s mom ever get a first name?
No, she never did. And Toby’s kids are with the ex. She and he used to be on good terms, but since he started doing undercover for the government, he’s stayed clear of that relationship for safety reasons, which the kids and ex won’t understand, etc. The ex and kids are highly offended at Barb.
Bren’s mom’s first name is one of those trick test questions up there with the first name of the second Mrs. de Winter from the du Maurier novel “Rebecca” — neither is ever named.
It’s one of those Human quirks that you don’t think of your mom or dad by their given names. Their names are (whatever variant you use of) “Mom” and “Dad.” Both brothers, when they spoke to her, and to each other about her, would call her “Mom”.
Which I always figured, but it didn’t necessarily mean the author didn’t make one up for her. I know some authors have all kinds of extra details written down that never make it into publication. 😉
So, would that make Bren’s parents Brenda and Brenma?
I always thought of it like figure drawing. You don’t actually see the person’s skeleton, but it affects the finished drawing because it underlies the person’s body and affects its shape and how it looks. Like the person’s skeleton, the author’s “back stories” and “under stories” affect the shape of the narrative. Same difference as an actor’s preparation to play a role.
I always wondered about Jago’s mother and the relationship between Banichi and the unnamed woman (of Dajoshu province? of the Guild? which Guild? other siblings to Jago?)
Mmm. That one’s a Guild secret.
Now that you mention it, it’s funny how you know what you know about Banichi and Jago, but then you forget it because they are their individual identities, and not their relationship. As (members of the) assassins (guild), they have subsumed everything else into their professional identities and their professional relationship (as they must), have made their peace with it, and life goes on. They so rarely allow Bren a glimpse into that side of things. It’s almost as though their life before the guild is irrelevant — which it kind of is.
one of the rare glimpses of it is Banichi’s reaction to the team at Asien’dalun.
I have started at the beginning again, which is such fun because you have hindsight. now can anyone help me with my ipod. I downloaded the audible version of Convergence to itunes – it plays on my imac fine, and also on the audible app on the ipad, but it WON’T play on the ipod. I’ve talked to apple, restored the ipod, updated it, removed and put back the book, then audible said I should download with enhance. but nothing works. I have already listened to convergence on the ipad, but it doesn’t work so well for me as the ipod. another book I just downloaded is doing the same thing (the Ascent of Gravity, Marcus Chown, non-fiction, reviews are very good)
fixed it! after 2 or more hours messing about, audible just removed and replaced the books, and now they work. so that’s good. now, where was I ……
Subtle and maddening are the ways of Apple when it has a problem, indeed.
though it turned out it was audible’s problem!
Nothing can provoke a hair-pulling, head-banging hissy fit like a misbehaving electronic device. They glitch for such arcane, obscure, and mundane reasons, without preamble, rhyme or reason. It almost seems that they take umbrage and malfunction if you look askance at them or decide not to work because you weren’t holding your mouth right when you did something.