By Admin
Published: January 25, 2007
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I just want to say a huge (and very late) HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my readers - and a big thank-you for all your letters, cards, emails and postings on torak.info!
As many of you may know, I don't have access to the Internet at home, so I've been thinking that maybe I'd better tell you why. It's not just that I spend most of my waking hours in the Stone Age with Torak and Renn and Wolf - although I do, and long may that continue. The real reason is that if I did have access to torak.info at home, I'd get addicted to it, and I'd be continually logging on to see what you're all saying, so I'd never get any writing done!
However, I do drop in from time to time to see what's going on, and of course, I've met lots of you at book signings, book festivals, and at the launch of Soul Eater last year. It's one of the most encouraging things for a writer to meet their readers, and I love it.
It's been a hugely busy time for me over the end of Christmas and the New Year, as I've been finishing OUTCAST (ie Book Four). Well, when I say finishing, it's pretty much done, and I'm enormously pleased with it - but there's still quite a lot of tweaking to do, and the artists have to do the cover and maps and illustrations, and so on - which is why it'll be published in about early September 07. (Although if you can't wait that long, you'll be able to read Chapter One at the back of the paperback version of SOUL EATER, which comes out in the UK some time in June.)
Why is it called OUTCAST? I'm not telling, of course, although those of you who have read SOUL EATER may well be able to guess. In OUTCAST, Torak is on his own - I mean, really on his own, split up from Renn and for a time, even from Wolf. And there are some pretty huge revelations about both Torak and Renn... But I'd better not say any more.
Anyway, that's all for now, as I've got to go and do some more work on OUTCAST. Once again, Happy New Year...
... and may the guardian run with you!