Oct32011

New Series Announced! The Parasol Protectorate Abroad: Prudence & Imprudence

It’s official, Gentle Reader! The announcement has been made. In addition to writing the new YA series, The Finishing School, and shepherding the Soulless manga into existence, I will be writing a new adult series for Orbit called the Parasol Protectorate Abroad the Custard Protocol. If you’ve finished Heartless you know who that series will feature! The first one will be called Prudence and the second Imprudence.

For those of you who have been following my blog regularly, this was secret project PPA. I’ll begin writing it next year, the first book to appear, hopefully, in 2013 but it could be more like 2014.

The delay is on me, Gentle Reader, for which I apologize. I asked for a bit of a breather. I’ve been writing 2~3 books a year plus travel and promotion for the past several years. During part of that time I was also teaching and traveling to excavate. I’ve ended relationships and started new ones. I’ve moved house, switched careers, had various medical kerfuffles, and commenced a second blog. I’ve taken tentative steps into self publishing. Mostly, I just need a break. And to take a break now means trickle down effects in the future. I need to balance my future deadlines as well, it was one of the life lessons learned early this year. Now, hopefully, one book will be due in the spring (Finishing School) and one in the winter (PPA). Release dates will depended on how the publishing houses decides to release the books and in what format. I will keep you informed as and when I can.

SPOILER ALERT for Blameless and Heartless
My intention with the  Parasol Protectorate Abroad the Custard Protocol books is to explore the wider ramifications of my Steampunk British Empire, not just how technology has altered but how vampires and werewolves have evolved differently in other parts of the world. I’m not going to tell you too much, as Timeless will give you some set up for this series. But sufficient to say, that the Prudence currently in my head has much of her mother’s go-get-em attitude mixed with a bit of her father’s temper and a certain love of fashion the result of a particularly colorful upbringing. She and her crack dirigible team lark about performing Leverage-like infiltration and rescue missions at the behest of (but if asked they will deny everything) Queen Victorian and her shadow council. It is going to be so very fun!
Being a writer, of course, all this is subject to change without notice at the whim of the muse.

A reminder I’m running a contest this month to win foreign editions of the Parasol Protectorate books.

Book News:
Frankfurt Germany Meet Up. Fox and Hound Pub Tuesday Night October 11, 2011.

Quote of the Day:

“The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.”

~ Andrew Ross

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  1. Skye said:

    I KNEW there would be a series about Prudence! XD Sounds AWESOME – can't wait to read them!

    I think we (your fans) can all agree we'd rather wait a few years and let you take a breather than lose you before your time. So relax and enjoy your break! You deserve it. Thank you for all your hard work so far and the amazing books that have come from it.

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