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May 3rd 2008: It is pretty embarrassing to leave it this long, isn't it! I have been writing, but basically trying to leave the Douglass side of my life alone as much as possible. The garden really dominates my life.

But to news. The Twisted Citadel should be out in Australia and new Zealand in early June - I am not sure of UK and USA publishing dates. I am currently well into the third book, tentatively titled The River Angels. I have also completed a story for Jack Dann's new anthology, Dreaming Again. The story is called "This Way to the Exit" and returns to my obsession with historic London, this time to the abandoned Underground stations which have always fascinated me. I have also agreed to do a novella for Jack for his Legends anthology due out sometime in the distant future. The Legends book is asking authors to return to one of their best known worlds and/or characters and to write a short novel on that subject. Interesting ... who should I choose?

HarperCollins USA is running a free giveaway of The Serpent Bride e-book to coincide with the publication of The Twisted Citadel. You can access the giveaway here, but the offer is only for US citizens.

April 4th 2007: The Serpent Bride will be out next month - in Australia and NZ certainly, and I think in the US, but am not sure about the UK. Am still stuck in Book 2 of the series - the title now keeps changing with the wind as HarperCollins seems to like nothing I suggest. Oh well. So Book 2 ... I have almost finished the first draft, jut a few scenes to go. Shocking end which I am looking forward to.

January 21st 2007: Well, I obviously went and got a life, didn't I! It has been six months since I wrote anything. I gardened - see Nonsuch. And gardened, and gardened some more. The garden just ate me for six months.

Now I am back to writing - The Twisted Tower which will be Book II in the Darkglass Mountain series.

Oh, and still doing some gardening.

June 30th 2006: Thank God, Serpent Bride has gone! I can now resume a life ...

I am in the process of answering all correspondence - my deepest apologies for not getting to you as soon as I should but they letters are on their way out now.

Also note that the Nonsuch garden journey is now at a different site - I haven't changed the links on this site yet but will shortly.

June 2nd 2006: STILL lost in the rewrite of Serpent Bride. Almost there. Another 2 weeks and it will be off to HarperCollins. This has been such an enormous job. I love the plot and characters, but just trying to get that damn pyramid right ... *sigh* Getting the first book in a series right is always nerve wracking.

May 18th 2006: Lost in the rewrite of Serpent Bride- the character of Isaiah has been problematical, but I believe I have sorted him now. I expect to be buried in this rewrite for several more weeks ... then I can get to my correspondence. I apologise if you have written in and not yet received a reply. At the moment everything I have is going to the rewrite, but I promise to write as soon as I have sent the book off.

April 11th 2006: Well, if you're reading this then both you and I will have made the ISP jump satisfactorily! Hope everything is working - I still have to fully test the site (if a page is missing - it will be here soon!). Many thanks to Hasweb hosting for such a brilliant deal.

To celebrate an almost painless switchover, I have put up a page on The Serpent Bride.

April 10th 2006: I am having terrible hassles with my current ISP and shall be swapping to a new one ASAP. There may be some problems with the site over the next week or so - apologies if it goes down.

March 25th 2006: Am nearing the end of a massive first draft of Serpent Bride. Sigh. getting very big ... may have to lose some battle scenes. I think we're going to have a very attenuated war to finish this book! Oh, and I've discovered a new and somewhat different race of Icarii lurking about in the mountains. Never knew they were there. Very interesting. Almost Icarii ... but they've had some strange blood mixed in with them at some point.

Hate it that daylight saving is extending this long just to accommodate sport ....

Landscaping has just started on the garden at Nonsuch - Yay!

February 19th 2006: Have been off in the Tasmanian wilderness for a week ... and then the wilderness of a migraine for another week. I preferred the first week.

Another venture between myself and some colleagues - as many of you know I love maps and engravings, mostly of London. The entire collection will eventually be going on the web at the Old London Map site. This is, like the Garden History site, still very new, but just watch it grow over the next year ...

January 31st 2006: I can never resist playing about on the web ... it is an addiction, truly. I took down most of the medieval stuff from this site when it was reorganised, but now I have started a new web site where much of it will re-appear. It is still very very new (as in less than 24 hours new!), but more articles will be going up there as I get a few minutes spare here and there. While concentrating on garden history, it also has a growing section on medieval, and eventually Renaissance and Baroque life. You may visit here.

January 29th 2006: You'll notice that some google ads now appear at the top of most pages. I wish I could say that Google and I have conducted a multi-million dollar deal, but in reality I am merely trying to recoup some of the costs of maintaining the site. I apologise to those who feel they are intrusive.

January 17th 2006: Writing, writing, writing - 300 pages deep into the Serpent Bride.

David Ogden in Iraq - your photograph left for you by express post this morning - hope it reaches you Okay. It isn't everyone gets a signed photo, you know. :)

December 21st : A confession. I have been really lax about replying to correspondence, and I apologize profusely. The good news is that I am now working my way through, replying to all who have written. The bad news is that I have run out of my pre-paid overseas postage envelopes and so at the moment I can only post to my Australian fans. *wince* How pathetic is that, eh? Will get new envelopes so soon as a) my local post office's computer is up and running again and b) so soon as the Christmas hordes are out of there.

December 1st : You can see the working map for DarkGlass Mountain - showing the lands of Tencendor, Escator, Ashdod, Viland and Coroleas all shown in relation to the world on which they exist (or existed, in the case of Tencendor!).

November 29th: Book One of DarkGlass Mountain now has a title: "The Serpent Bride".

November 26th: Long silence - sorry. Busy being anyone not connected with Sara Douglass. But ... planning for DarkGlass Mountain is now complete and writing has started. Very excited with this new beginning for so many old characters (but, no, not Faraday!). Watch out for the Skraelings, they're back, and this time with a far nastier lordling than Gorgrael.

The site will be undergoing further development over the next few weeks as I toy about with it. Apologies in advance for any pages not working or hopelessly garbled.

September 1st : Finally - after losing the entire site there for a while, the new site is now up. Hopefully. And even more hopefully you might be able to find your way about it. It's looking a bit stark, but that's fine cause I am in a stark mood. The site is considerably smaller than that it replaced ... but neater. Phew! Pray that it works!!! (And sorry for any typos, haven't managed to get them all.)

The final book of The Troy Game, now called Druids' Sword, is in and I'm in the planning mode for Darkglass Mountain.

I am also desperately, desperately hoping the builders finish restoring the verandah of Nonsuch so that I can get its garden landscaped.

 

June 13th 2005: I have finally sent in book four of The Troy Game. This is now titled "Druids' Sword." Another one of those books in which the title changed all the time ... This book should be released in May of next year.

I am about to embark on a major revamp of this site - new look, fining down, updating all pages. This will take me a little bit - probably a couple of months, and the site may be down on the day I changed over, but all should be well in the fullness of time.

Then I start to think about the new series, Darkglass Mountain (keep an eye on that name!) which will feature the return of Axis, StarDrifter, Maximilian from Beyond the Hanging Wall, and a shady guy called Zoab (keep an eye on that name, as well), the descendent of Boaz and Tirzah. No frogs. No Faraday.

April 30th 2005: Here is a link to the new and still very small site devoted to my new garden at Nonsuch.

April 21st 2005: Phew! Move over and I am beginning to wean myself off the valium. Boy, never ever doing that again! On the plus side I have an amazing rambling old Victorian with doors I have yet to open, a huge block, mountains on three sides and the water on the fourth, and cool weather. I really, really appreciate the cool weather! I now have a new address you can write to me if you wish - it is Sara Douglass, PO Box 200, New Town LPO, Tasmania, 7008, Australia. Eventually I will have a new web site devoted to the garden here ... but that will take a while in coming, I think. Over the next few months I will also be redesigning this site. Ashcotte is now sold ... :(

February 7th 2005: It's been a while - sorry. I won't be about much over the next few months as I'm about to abandon Ashcotte and move lock stock and barrel down to Cornelian Bay in Tasmania where I have just purchased a lovely and grand decaying old house which will likely keep me poor for the next half a century. (Hannah chose the house for me and she's already moved down.) Huge rambling (and similarly decaying) gardens and strange doorways in the house which lead nowhere. It will be fun exploring (as it will be similar fun being able to have my morning coffee on the beach). Once I've moved will put up an update.

 

 

 

 

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