FYI ...

[3scoremiles_10]

For those who care or are interested, book related info is behind the cut. Everyone else, feel free to ignore.

Some of you might be aware I've gone and written a book - and yes, of course it's about Alexander the Great. Release date is fast approaching (trust me, when you're faced with the threat of last minute rewrites, it is VERY fast approaching) and I can now give you some information on the whole what, where and when thing.

The title of the book is The Lion's Cub by L Speight (that's me) and it is published by HarperCollins NZ and HarperCollins Australia. Availability in the northern hemisphere is an unknown at this point, but given that in this current internet savvy era you can buy almost anything from almost anywhere, anyone who actually wants a copy will find a way. Release date is set for 11/8/06, all going to plan, and there is an ISBN but I can't be bothered finding the paperwork for that right now so let's just let that slide for now, okay?

Right, enough trumpet-blowing from me. Catch you later.

Comments

Very happy tidings!

[coraldawn.livejournal.com]

Wonderful news. "The Lion's Cub" huh? Sounds very promising. How old will the cub be by book's end?
Looking forward to getting my hands on a copy at the earliest. The thought of the first three-dimensional Hephaistion makes me break out in little giggles of joy .....

And don't panic! Start writing the next part of the trilogy - unless you've already done it! :)

Re: Very happy tidings!

[3scoremiles-10.livejournal.com]

The cub will be around 20 (not to give too much away) and part 2 is pretty much in the can. Part 3, on the other hand ... argh.

Re: Very happy tidings!

[coraldawn.livejournal.com]

A book about the Cub till age 20 is bound to be adorable - and coming from you, I know already that I will love it. So glad that Part 2 is in the can. That probably means we won't have to wait too long for it. Part 3 is the tricky one - isn't it? (If that is, he is still alive in Part 3). Such a complicated mix of greatness and total craziness with immense amounts of hubris thrown in! :) But I am sure you'll do it justice....
(Incidentally, my most favorite ATG published fiction (absolutely Number 1 till now) is Melissa Scott's AU: A Choice of Destinies... where she cleverly steers him away from impending craziness by making it an AU.)

I am probably being cheeky here, but I hope someday you write about Philip too - I admire and respect his achievements immensely and wonder what it was like for him as boy and a teen, repeatedly being a hostage, brothers dying, mother's evil lover, etc.... And what would he have achieved if he had NOT been killed in 336?

Re: Very happy tidings!

[3scoremiles-10.livejournal.com]

I don't know about adorable - Alexandros isn't so much the adorable type. The infuriating, compelling, inspirational and frustrating type ... but not so much with the adorable, no.

And he wouldn't be Alexandros if he wasn't just a little bit mad.

Strangely enough (or maybe not) it was Philip who first brought me to ATG in a serious way. He is every bit as impressive as his son, he just had a whole lot less to work with in the beginning. I'm not signing myself up for anything, but if I were going to throw myself into another bloody epic writing project, I'd not turn my nose up at him.