The Aussies continue to knock me for six (see how I got a cricket reference in there). I just found out A Darkness Forged in Fire is being featured in their Christmas catalogue. The really cool part, however, is that my book is placed smack dab between one by Terry Pratchett and one by J.K. Rowling (perhaps to better illustrate just how massively successful they are in comparison to a rookie no one has heard of). Still, as I happen to be HUGE fans of both of them I’m tickled.
In other news a whole host of fantasy authors have been nominated for the David Gemmel Award and I was pleasantly surprised to find out I was one of them. If you’d care to check this out and see my page and even discuss about why you love me – sorry, I should have let you finish your drink first so you didn’t spritz your keyboard – you can have a look here.
Which Chrissy catalogue,as in which company?
Borders Australia
Cheers,
Chris
great, fantastic, bloody marvelous and well deserved……OK nuff said…SOooooooooo WHEN’S BOOK 2 ??????????????..sorry please WHEN’S THE NEXT ONE :)..not meaning to rush you or any thing…BUT PLEASE don’t do a.. done the first book great success…. 2-3 years later here’s the next one.. like a lot of authors do, the suspense would kill me…which would be sad as one less reader to by the book that scheduled…when???
Is this my editor? I’m working on it, honest!
Thanks for the compliments and the pressure 🙂 Book II, The Light of Burning Shadows, will hit stores in the US the end of June 2009. Not sure about other markets yet, although I believe the UK will be around the same time.
Cheers,
Chris
to chris evans author of a darkness forged in fire
great, fantastic, bloody marvelous and well deserved……OK nuff said…SOooooooooo WHEN’S BOOK 2 ??????????????..sorry please WHEN’S THE NEXT ONE :)..not meaning to rush you or any thing…BUT PLEASE don’t do a.. done the first book great success…. 2-3 years later here’s the next one.. like a lot of authors do, the suspense would kill me…which would be sad as one less reader to by the book that scheduled…when???
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Seriously, you sound a lot like my editor. I’m writing, really, but I have a date tonight so the lads will just have to sit idle for a few hours before I get back to tossing them into the deep end.
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hi nope not your editor…sounds like a nice chap though..hehehe…just someone who reads a lot (read yours in 2 days as really good..ok enough of the flattery) who’s favorite authors seem to take longer and longer to write as an artist i really should appreciate it takes time to get it right..but patience never my thing:( loved wobbly a pelican after my own heart…here’s hoping UK release same as US and agree with other posts a map would be nice if only to put distances in to context…Hizu seemed to go a heck of a long way in really short time….anyway looking forward to release..JUNE ’09..no pressure of course
regards lesley
ps how the date go???..we’re very nosy us brits..lol
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Not quite sure where Wobbly came from, but I just loved the idea of a drunk messenger (smart owls had already been used).
As for the date, well, good news for all the single ladies out there looking to land a guy who writes about elves…I’m still on the market.
Re: to chris evans author of a darkness forged in fire
hi
re the date…….AHHHH! never mind they say you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince or in your case princess… small tip though do you think it might help if you left the shinning Armour at home and took a car instead of the trusty steed…just a thought
lesley
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sorry me again..a strong observation about your…no not your date this time…book would i be right in thinking you drew a lot on the history of the British raj in India especially the campaigns along the afghan boarders…in the scene where you describe the loading of the muskets and how they tear the wrap i almost expected a follow on about how the natives would not take up the use of muskets because of the animal fat used in the wrapper, also the descriptions of some officers and the viceroy were very much indicative of the attitudes and prejudices of that day among the so called upper classes,anyway it made a nice change from Gallic/Cornish/Norse mythology used by a lot of authors…
ok that’s it
regards lesley
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Good eye. Elfkyna is patterned in part on India and British colonialism/imperialism, especially as written about by Kipling. I actually contemplated using that incident which was the last straw as it were to the start of the Indian Mutiny.
Chris
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yeh amazing the amount of useless information running round this old head of mine:)anyway glad you didn’t think it would have been tooooo obvious..lol.