Second printing!

It's barely been three weeks since The Amber Wizard was published, and I just received word today that HarperCollins has gone back for a second printing! It's not as large as the initial print run, but still, I'm incredibly pleased that sales are doing well enough to warrant more copies!

It all finally falls into place

I've really been struggling with the outline for The Path of Ashes. I had lots of great individual story elements, arcs for existing characters, and ideas for cool and interesting new characters, but I didn't have an overall framework on which to hang it all. I struggled a great deal to get through part one, and then had to start all over again with part two (which is very different from part one), which was even harder even though I had more individual ideas for that section. I just didn't know how they all threaded together.

That (mostly) ended today. It was one of those days where a number of revelatory ideas come to me almost without effort. My subconscious must have been stewing on these questions for a time and decided now was the moment to spit them out. There are a few neat ideas that tie back to a minor scene in The Amber Wizard, and I now have a much better understanding of where all this is headed and how it will end up. Not all of the problems are solved -- not by a long shot -- but most of the major roadblocks just got bypassed.

Kudos to my subconscious!

BOOK SIGNING TOMORROW NIGHT, TUESDAY, APRIL 4

I know most of you locals are aware of this by now, but in case you forgot, my very first book signing will be at the Barnes & Noble at the Camp Hill Shopping Center tomrrow night, Tuesday, April 4. It starts at 7:00 pm. The book signing is first, then I'll be speaking to and answering questions from a writers' group that meets there once a month. Come on out so I don't end up looking like a goof standing there by myself!