Okay, now it can be told (since my brilliant agent Mike Kabongo, a.k.a. onyxhawke, already has): I’ve signed a deal with Pyr Books for a Morlock novel, Blood of Ambrose, which is due out Spring 2009.
That makes for a quick deadline. So, as you can imagine, when I’m not taking pictures of tremendous feat or floating face down in Tiber-sized streams of Chinotto Neri, I’m busy revising the final text of the Morlock novel, working steadily on the sequel and trying to do some dreaming and drafting on the second sequel.
This wasn’t how I thought I’d be spending the next year or so–but that’s not a complaint. You know the Weird Al song, “Everything You Know Is Wrong”? It can be a great feeling to realize you were completely mistaken about something.
Ah, ’twas only a matter of time! Many well-deserved congratulations!
Thanks! (Speaking of time: man, are you fast! I had hardly posted before I saw your response. I’m not absolutely sure you didn’t respond before I posted.)
Yes, well spotted, but please don’t tell any US scientists or they’ll capture me and cut me up to see how I do it.
Just tell them it involves stem cells–they’ll be afraid to lose their funding.
Well, how about that.
Best news about a forthcoming fantasy novel in years.
Congratulations.
Hardcover or paperback?
PYR packages books nicely. Bet you get a sweet cover.
John Hocking
Re: Well, how about that.
Thanks! Re the hardback/paperback thing: the only part I remember from the contract is the clause where they back a truck up to my house and start shovelling money in through the window. And maybe I dreamed that part. But awesome covers certainly seem to be a PYR specialty.
Congratulations! Good luck! Now get to work. 😉
Thanks!
Hm. “Work.”
[Enge looks up “work” in his English>Academese dictionary, falls off chair in horror.]
Go James 🙂 Keep us updated.
Thanks! Hey, I had no idea you were on LJ. That galumphing sound you hear is me friending you.
🙂 thanks. I’ve friended you as well.
Brings a tear to my eye…
James, I was very stoked to read about this. Can’t wait for the first installment. Congratulations!
Re: Brings a tear to my eye…
Thanks! Hope it doesn’t disappoint.
Congratulations, man! That’s great! 🙂
Thanks! I was pretty excited at first, but now I’ve calmed down a bit. I’m only vibrating at 1600 kilohertz now.
Best of luck, man! I, for one, am rooting for you to be rich and famous 🙂
Congratulations
Congratulations, Mr. Enge. Well deserved and well done.
–Jason T
Re: Congratulations
Thanks! I don’t know about deserved, but I’ll sneak off with whatever I can carry…
WELL DONE YOU!!
Crikey, I’m so surrounded by succeeding or successful writers, I am beginning to think maybe I should have another go myself. But congratulations anyway.
Thanks! Seriously, and without soap, you should have another go. You write fluently, energetically and with impact.
YIP!
I thank you; Morlock thanks you.
Well! This is great news! Felicitations!
Love, C.
Thanks!
You know, if i didn’t see the link back to my LJ i’d swear you were talking about some other agent…
Hey, “brilliant” was the let’s-go-with-understatement version.
That’s fantastic! Congrats!
Thanks!
Congratulations! It’s great to see good things happening to good people.
Best,
Howard
Thanks, Howard. I’m not sure I’ve quite earned the “good person” merit badge, but I’ll keep working on it.
That is very good news.
–Jeff Stehman
Thanks, Jeff!
HUGE congratulations! Are these the same Morlocks that terrorize time travelers? And I really can’t think of a better way to spend a year, but that’s just me!
Thanks!
Re Morlock and the Morlocks: Sort of, but not exactly. I was rereading Wells’ “Time Machine” once and I simultaneously noticed two things: I liked the Morlocks more than the Eloi and the name “Morlock” reminded me of a lot of names in Arthurian literature: Morgause, Morgaine, Mordred, Morholt. That was probably the genesis of Morlock Ambrosius, though he had a lot gestation and changed a lot in the process.
I totally agree about the year. Deadlines! It’s so cool to have deadlines! Probably I’ll feel differently about it someday (not too far off), but right now it sounds pretty cool.
Congratulations! (he said, inadequately)
Not at all, not at all. Thanks.
Congratulations, that is GREAT news!
(The book, that is, not the “Sunset Boulevard Float” in the Tiber.)
Well done!
Thanks! The book even has twin cities in it–though they are not much like St. Paul & Mpls.
Deadlines! It’s so cool to have deadlines!
Same here. I’m much, much more productive with them. You lucky bastard! (Ahhh. I’m picturing you melting keyboards as the day draws nigh. Much better. 🙂
–Jeff Stehman
Wow, congrats! I’ve been waiting quite some time for Morlock to crack into novel form. Rest assured I’ll be purchasing at least two copies: One for me, one for an amigo I think would appreciate Morlock’s sense of humor.
You should do a signing in Madison someday. . .nice college town, lots of bookstores, good sized reading population ;).
Thanks, Sean. A signing in Madison sounds good… a signing anywhere sounds good. (I’m still wrapping my head around the fact that there are going to be real live books to be signed.)