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SOME GOLDEN HARBOR – snippet 32:

The water taxi’s electric motor began to arc and spit before it’d carried Adele and Tovera more than halfway to Krychek’s ship. They wallowed.

“Can you get us to shore?” Tovera said. Adele couldn’t see her face in the darkness, but her voice was cold. “We’ll walk the rest of the way.”

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1635: THE CANNON LAW – snippet 50:

CHAPTER 19

“Well, this is a grand house,” Giovanna remarked.

“All of ‘em are, around here,” Frank said. And it was true. The USE Embassy was in a very nice neighbourhood indeed, on the outskirts of the huge Borghese estate. That said, there did seem to be a lot of people just … hanging around. That wouldn’t have been much out of the ordinary down toward the Borgo on the other side of the river. Frank was pretty much used to the sight of the street-life being seasoned with a fair few of what you could only call “colourful characters”—assuming, that is, you didn’t want to call them bums and petty criminals. Frank had the feeling that seeing more than one around here would be a little odd, and come right to it, a few streets away there hadn’t been quite so many specimens of the local wildlife mixed in among the well-to-do. It was … odd. (more…)

Just to let people know, the final draft of 1824: THE ARKANSAS WAR has been accepted by Del Rey, so that’s done. I’m just finishing 1635: THE CANNON LAW at the moment, and should have that turned in next week. At that point, I’ll take a short break from novel writing in order to:

First, I need to finish three short stories for Jim Baen’s UNIVERSE:

– The first episode of “Fish Story,” which I’m writing with Andrew Dennis and Dave Freer. That’s scheduled for the first issue, coming out at the beginning of June.

– “The Realm of Words,” a solo story set in my Joe’s World universe, which is scheduled to appear in the second issue.

– “Crawlspace,” a novelette Dave Freer and I are writing, set in our Rats, Bats & Vats universe. That’s currently scheduled for the fifth issue of the magazine, coming out in February 2007.

At that point, I’m going to the Nebula Awards in Tempe, AZ, following which my wife Lucille and I will be visiting my mother and sister in Las Vegas. We’ll be back around the middle of May. I plan to catch up on a lot of the editing work for JBU on the trip.

Once I get back, I’ll be starting on 1634: THE BALTIC WAR. Dave Weber will also be at the Nebula Awards, so he and I will have a chance to touch base there before starting the novel.

Eric

SOME GOLDEN HARBOR – snippet 31:

He laughed. “I suppose I ought to regret that choice,” he said, “but I don’t. I don’t care that some dimwit from Bennaria gets angry any more than the Academy Provosts did.”

“I was puzzled by the timing of Wrenn’s appearance on the Sibyl,” Adele said, cascading additional text across Daniel’s display. He glanced at it but kept his attention on his friend instead; she’d give him the information he needed in an organized and compact fashion, a much better plan than him trying to sort the raw data himself. “Since it didn’t seem random. I found–”

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1635: THE CANNON LAW – snippet 49:

“If Your Eminence will forgive me, I have some prior knowledge of the character of Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz. It is the defining character of the man that he is honourable, almost to excess in certain matters, and he is engaged to be married to the moorish american woman. If there is one thing he was not doing it was engaging the services of a prostitute.”

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SOME GOLDEN HARBOR – snippet 30:

CHAPTER 8: Charlestown Harbor on Bennaria

The water taxi that brought Daniel and Hogg from Waddell House to the Sissie was a flat-bottomed skimmer driven by an air-screw astern. It was only marginally stable, extremely wet, and more than a little dangerous because the powerplant was a nacelle cannibalized from an air-cushion vehicle.

The high-speed intake stream would’ve sucked off Daniel’s saucer hat if he hadn’t kept it on his lap. He could imagine a drunk who’d stood too close when the nacelle pivoted for a turn having worse problems than that. (more…)

1635: THE CANNON LAW – snippet 48:

CHAPTER 18

“Your Eminence,” Quevedo said, bowing fulsomely.

Borja choked down the first retort that came to mind, which would have been an ungracious comment that the man was at once late and improperly attired, and nodded in return, proffering his ring for the formal kiss. “Senor Quevedo y Villega,” he said, “what have you to report?” (more…)

The loyal minions have just heard that Eric has accepted an offer to be a guest at Conspiracy 2, the 28th annual New Zealand SF Convention to be held in Wellington over Queen’s Birthday weekend, 1 - 4 June 2007.

for more information visit http://conspiracy2.sf.org.nz

–Loyal Minions

(Just for a sense of scale, and to let you know how cool it might be to go to, this year’s New Zealand national SF Convention is being held in a hotel with 68 rooms, and they say that “we should be able to take over a large chunk of it.” The 2007 con hotel has 65 rooms.)

First, the good news. It’s done.

Second, the good news. Us loyal minions have seen the cover, and it’s pretty cool, and in a move we think is clever, invokes the American Flag Date thing from the 1632 covers, as you can plainly see from the attached image. So, why not Pre-Order it now! (Click the thumbnail for a larger version of the cover.)

Note that this cover will test the classic assumption in publishing that a novel with a picture of a black man on the cover won’t sell well. Please help us prove them wrong!

– Loyal Minions.

Ram appears to have topped out at about 200 in the Amazon sales ranking.

Thanks.

And, as before, if you’re going to buy it anyway, you might consider using THIS LINK, which returns a tiny bit more to Eric’s coffers.

–Loyal Minions

–Loyal Minions