Babel Clash

Morgan, thank you so much for inviting me, and Claudia for joining me! It’s been heaps of fun, and I hope entertaining for all of you out there. If you’re interested in hearing more, follow me on twitter and on livejournal for updates! ♥

In addition to the beautiful Temeraire omnibus that is out now, and Tongues of Serpents, which will be coming out July 13, I am currently finishing up an incredibly fun manga project with the super-talented Yishan Li: Liberty Vocational, about the adventures of the somewhat-hapless Leah Taymore, a new student at a vocational school for superheroes.

It has been very much a learning experience, writing a graphic novel — the hardest part is trying not to pile ten times the possible story into each frame, leaving room for the art to breathe and tell the story with you.

I also have another project in the works, a YA trilogy loosely inspired by the Secret Garden, which I’ll be starting work on this February; I don’t have a date on that one yet, but am wildly excited about the concept.

I currently also have several other short stories out and forthcoming besides Araminta and Purity Test: Vici, in The Dragon Book (I recommend checking out the very spiffy UK publisher’s site, which is full of fantastic content and among other things a video of me reading the first part of the story), is set in the Temeraire universe and is the story of the taming of the first dragon in Western Europe, featuring a rather well known historical figure. *g*

I’m also very proud of Seven Years From Home, in the upcoming anthology Warriors also from Gardner Dozois, with George R. R. Martin, which will be out in March 2010, and further out, the story Priced To Sell in Ellen Datlow’s Naked City anthology coming in winter 2011, for which I don’t have a link yet but which is full of new stories of urban fantasy.

And for Temeraire fans, I am happy to report we have a new deal with Del Rey for three more books in the series, which will bring it to a close — I have felt for a while that it seemed like there were going to be nine volumes total, and while writing Tongues of Serpents, the general outline of seven through nine fell into my head, which was v exciting. (This happened at a cafe in Sydney while doing research, which was especially lovely. Am especially excited about the Incas. \o/ )

Thank you all again!

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