The occasional observations of Carolyn Kephart, writer

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Never Ending Stories

Heavens, it's felt like forever.

For the last couple of months I've been runnin' down a dream, to quote my favorite Tom Petty song. The Ryel Saga, which was always meant to be a single volume, finally is. It took a frazzling deal of work, but I finally joined together Wysard and Lord Brother and added tons more material gathered up from the cutting-room floor, where it had fallen because of page constraints during the irksome Age of Paper. Were it trad-printed instead of e-pubbed, the new Saga would be a massive tome indeed at almost 250,000 words, equaling 600 pages or so; I'm sure quite a few hamadryads are murmuring my name in prayerful thanks at being spared from so much pulping and binding. My website has links to chapter samples, plus purveyors like Kindle, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble.

Finally, I can work on something else, and there's so much else.





CK

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