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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Sludge

Hey Guys,

I finished a draft of Sludge. It turned out to be about 300 pages. I've also made some changes to the begging to make it jive with the what the rest of the book became. I'll also be submitting the first 35 pages to Tor Publishing so I'd really appreciate it if you'd gave another look at the first 20 pages with the new material. I'll be emailing it shortly. Does it flow with the new material? Does it make sense? How can I make it better? All comments on anything are always appreciated.

Thanks,
Alan

Sunday, March 10, 2013

New Dark is the Night opening

Hi fellas,

Sorry this is so late.  It's a new opening to Dark is the Night.  Quite a few similarities to its previous incarnation, except I've bumped it up in the timeline, so the first chapter is actually the last scene before the climax (chronologically).  I'm drafting a revision of this that starts en medias res but then does less chronological skipping around.  Let me know what you think! And be tough!  I mean business with this revision.

Ri