Fantasy Author and Very Serious Person
The Perfect Assassin is out in the world!! You should be able to find it anywhere books are sold. Also libraries!! In fact, people've been sending me photos of it in the wild, face-out, at Barnes and Nobles and their local indies, and honestly, that's been so, so cool. People have been asking me how… Continue reading It’s here!!
How did we go from two and a half years to less than a week?? Oh right, the passage of time. Well aside from flailing, I haven't much to say. But I've got a lot of links! First off, if you want to learn about dunes - or some of my research behind the Perfect… Continue reading Less Than a Week
It sure has been a month. I don't even know how to begin, so let's just run through it, shall we? I started a new job. Winter finally showed up. I moderated my first panel and gave my first reading at ConFusion in Detroit. I wrote a bit more of my WIP. The cover for… Continue reading January Recap (Madcap?)
First there were copyedits. Then there were page proofs. Then there was silence. Now. Now, there is. A cover. *pauses for the appropriate amount of anticipation* *pause* *paaaause* *drumroll* Ta daaa! Thank you to the team at Tor for putting this together, especially my editor Diana Pho for helping find the perfect model, and Larry… Continue reading The Perfect Assassin Has a Cover
Galleys/ARCs: WHAT THEY ARE ARC stands for Advanced Reading Copy, and galleys are a variation on that theme. They're an early print of the book with the post copy-edits but not-yet-finalized text and marketing verbiage all over because they're, well, marketing tools. This is why sometimes they have a title and sometimes they don't. Mine… Continue reading From the Debut Trenches: Galleys/ARCs
Well what do we have here. No really. What do we have here? Gorgeously formatted pages with words on them that look vaguely familiar, like maybe... *squints* OH GOD THEY'RE MY WORDS Excuse me for a moment while I flail. *flails* Ahem. Those beautifully-formatted words are from page one of the Perfect Assassin's page proofs.… Continue reading From the Debut Trenches: Page Proofs
#TFOB, my #TFOB, how I love thee so. When we moved to Tucson, the Festival of Books was still in its toddlerhood. We went during its 3rd year and it was already huge and drawing in ginormous crowds and interesting/well-known/actual authors. I wandered between tables of books and lecture halls of guest speakers under a… Continue reading 10 Years of The Tucson Festival of Books
Between holidays and travel and dayjob and a baby quickly becoming a toddler, I somehow managed to finish the edits on the Impossible Contract aka Book Two. For those keeping score, that means I now have two out of three books done* in this trilogy, and book one isn't set to be out for, oh,… Continue reading Two out of Three
November 1st last year, I started writing draft zero for Book One of what we're now calling the Assassins of Ghadid trilogy. I had a character and a scene and a vague idea of where it was all going. Several rewrites, revisions, and now an editorial letter later, I think I can safely say Book… Continue reading What a Difference a Year Makes
Started writing: November 1, 2016 Manuscript sent: June 27, 2017 Total days: 239 I.E.: 7.9 months Percentage of days spent writing: 94% Estimated days spent writing: 224 Average hours/day: 2.4 Average hours of sleep/day: hahahaha Number of drafts: 4 Word count of draft one (aka draft zero): 56,649 Word count of draft two (aka draft… Continue reading Ending Stats for Book One
K. A. Doore 