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brightknightie) wrote in fandomcalendar2025-05-29 07:37 amForever Knight: FKFicFest 2025 (now releasing)
| FK Fic Fest 2025 |
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fkficfest '25 is releasing!We have 12 all-new Forever Knight fanfic stories this year. We're releasing one per day as long as they last to savor the goodness. So far, 4 are available to read! We're looking forward to 8 more!
Follow the reveals as they happen on our '25 AO3 sub-collection or DW community.
Do you remember Forever Knight (1992-1996) on CBS's "Crimetime After Primetime?" In local syndication? On the USA cable network or the original Sci-Fi Channel? DVDs? Streaming on Crackle, AppleTV, or Amazon? We still love our favorite vampire homicide cop and all his friends, enemies, lovers, coworkers, and car. Come play with us!
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lois_mcmaster_bujold_feed) wrote2025-05-25 04:56 pm
lois_mcmaster_bujold_feed) wrote2025-05-25 04:56 pmPenric 14 impending
I am pleased to report that the 14th Penric & Desdemona novella is complete in first draft, as of this afternoon. About 36K words at present.
There is still a ways to go till it's ready for e-publication. It lacks both final title and cover at the moment. The title, I've learned on previous outings, is really needed first to bring the cover into the right focus. Also the artist Ron Miller has not yet had a chance to read the full manuscript, which Ron generally does, bless him.
Title is still circling the field. "Penric's take your kids to work day goes wrong" is alas too long, and jokey, if accurate. "Penric's Ox" is too easy to confuse with "Penric's Fox", and besides the livestock is not really the core of the tale. Best and default candidate so far is the double-edged "Penric's Lessons", although that feels as if it would be better saved for some collection. Growf. I hope something snappier will emerge during the test-reading/editing/wait for the cover phase.
It's been pretty interesting to replace the typical lone-wolf magical protagonist living out his angsty extended adolescence with an actual mature adult embedded in a functional family, and see what that does to genre expectations. My first vision of the older Penric, back before I started all this, was more in the former mode. I'm glad I dropped back and started him at his beginning with what became "Penric's Demon" -- he's a much more engaging character now.
No, I don't know anything yet about Blackstone or SubPress. AFAIK, they've not yet been informed the story exists, though my agent will take care of that soon. But I prefer to have it in final, tidied-as-possible form before submitting it for subrights sales.
And now I'm going to go take the evening goofing off.
Ta, L.
posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on May, 25
There is still a ways to go till it's ready for e-publication. It lacks both final title and cover at the moment. The title, I've learned on previous outings, is really needed first to bring the cover into the right focus. Also the artist Ron Miller has not yet had a chance to read the full manuscript, which Ron generally does, bless him.
Title is still circling the field. "Penric's take your kids to work day goes wrong" is alas too long, and jokey, if accurate. "Penric's Ox" is too easy to confuse with "Penric's Fox", and besides the livestock is not really the core of the tale. Best and default candidate so far is the double-edged "Penric's Lessons", although that feels as if it would be better saved for some collection. Growf. I hope something snappier will emerge during the test-reading/editing/wait for the cover phase.
It's been pretty interesting to replace the typical lone-wolf magical protagonist living out his angsty extended adolescence with an actual mature adult embedded in a functional family, and see what that does to genre expectations. My first vision of the older Penric, back before I started all this, was more in the former mode. I'm glad I dropped back and started him at his beginning with what became "Penric's Demon" -- he's a much more engaging character now.
No, I don't know anything yet about Blackstone or SubPress. AFAIK, they've not yet been informed the story exists, though my agent will take care of that soon. But I prefer to have it in final, tidied-as-possible form before submitting it for subrights sales.
And now I'm going to go take the evening goofing off.
Ta, L.
posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on May, 25
Lois McMaster Bujold's Blog (lois_mcmaster_bujold_feed) wrote2025-05-21 07:39 am
lois_mcmaster_bujold_feed) wrote2025-05-21 07:39 amPenric and the Bandit now shipping
Updating myself further, I see this morning that "Penric and the Bandit" is now in-stock and shipping from Subterranean Press.
https://subterraneanpress.com/bujold-...
Uncle Hugo's and Dreamhaven here in Minneapolis should get their copies pretty soon.
Ta, L.
Ta, L.
posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on May, 21
https://subterraneanpress.com/bujold-...
Uncle Hugo's and Dreamhaven here in Minneapolis should get their copies pretty soon.
Ta, L.
Ta, L.
posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on May, 21