After six months of editing, rewriting, crying, gnashing of teeth and pulling of fur, my next novel, Bonds of Silver, Bonds of Gold is finally ready for pre-order!

Cover art by  turbinedivinity, who did absolutely beautiful work.

Editing by  postvixen, to whom I give many bloops of gratitude for her outstanding attention to detail!

Layout by  electrickeet, who has put up with all of my nitpicky requests with quiet dignity and grace.

Published by  furplanet, who deserve a lot more credit than they get for being awesome at what they do.

I am so stoked. I am damned proud of this book, and all the work that has gone into it.

... time to start writing the next one.

25 Chapters.
73 Sections.
112,806 Words.
Bonds of Silver, Bonds of Gold first draft, complete.

I'm updating FA as I can remember to do so, but this isn't my first home, so anybody who wants to get caught up on the story ahead of schedule can find the whole thing on my website.

... oh dust. Time to edit.

My second novel, Beautiful World, is finally available for pre-order! It's officially being released at Further Confusion 2011!

*squeeeeeeeeeeee!*

So, after my sturm und drang over publishing and publishability and... everything... I broke down and said fuggit.

I'm updating here again. Yeah. I never quit posting, really, but now the posts will be back here. Mind you, you'll still get better results if you go read things at the professional site, but I'll still (try to remember to) crosspost here as things go live.

So, now that FA's back, I figure it's a good time to update with everything that I've written for Beautiful World since the site went down.

. . .

Um... actually, I think a better thing to do is to level with folks. Right now, I'm at twenty-nine thousand words and I've just about hit the halfway point. I've added two more chapters, the plot is about to have its first peak, and I'm seriously starting to look at this as a publishable work in its own right. This means that, unfortunately, I won't be posting any more pieces of Beautiful World publicly. As much as I'd love to be able to give the whole thing away, I really would like to be able to see this actually hit print, and the more of the story I make freely available, the less likely somebody like Sofawolf will be interested in it.

However, this also means that I'm currently looking for a small number of people who'd be interested in serving as alpha-readers of the chapters as they become available to provide spot-edits and feedback. I confess I enjoy the attention that the updates bring, but I can't scratch that itch and still end up with a reasonably marketable product, so this seems like a reasonable compromise to me.

This doesn't mean that this account is dead, either. I'll still make updates here and there as time and occasion permit. I just won't be adding any more of this particular work here.

Kristy