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Two down, one to go.

Just wrapped up the draft of Heretics, YEA! Something over a hundred thousand words of epic destruction as I continue in my apocalyptic deconstruction of the Hostile Takeover universe. I’ll be doing some fixing up of the draft this week (a few retroconned scenes here, some backfill there, epigrams everywhere) and should get a copy off to DAW by Monday. Doesn’t mean I’m done with it, for good— I always have editorial revisions— but I’ll be done with it for now.

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By S Andrew Swann, ago

Latest news on the writing front

List of stuff that’s happened in my career lately in lieu of a full blog post:

Just got Bantam’s cover art for Lilly’s Song, and it kicks ass (will post as soon as they confirm I can post it to the web).  I got an equally kick-ass blurb from George R. R. Martin for it:

S.A. Swann has written a spellbinding fantasy of the Teutonic Knights and the great Northern Crusade, set in a little-known period of history amidst the gloomy forests of Prussia and Lithuania. Vivid and visceral, dark and delicious, this one kept me turning pages from start to finish.

This comes on the heels of the one from Mary Balogh:

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By S Andrew Swann, ago

Windycon

I’m flying out to Chicago today to attend Windycon, my last con-going for 2008.  If you’re going to be there, here’s my schedule of events: Saturday 1400:  Autographing Saturday 1600: SF 9/11 Saturday 1900: Building a Military SF Library Sunday 1000: Mistakes That Go Boom Sunday 1100: Future Combat:  Hearts Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, ago

And the title is:

Pending confirmation from DAW, the title is going to be either: Journalists and Dragons: Stories of the Cleveland Portal or Journalists, Dragons and Dwarves: Stories of the Cleveland Portal I think I’m more partial to the second one. UPDATE: Sheila didn’t like the word “Journalist” so the title will be: Read more…

By S Andrew Swann, ago