I got an interesting call from my publisher yesterday. It seems that while THE WRATH OF ANGELS is going to be published in April, that’s going to be April 2007, a scant three years after I completed it. I can’t argue with their reasoning, or even complain about it, however. It seems Simon and Schuster is teaming up with another major New York publisher who shall remain nameless to create a new imprint. Not only will WRATH be one of the imprint’s lead titles, but they’re going to be re-releasing WAR and WORLD with new covers and whatnot.
In any event, I apologize for the continuing delay.
And yes, for those who are counting, that will make three different editions of WAR, which has to be some kind of record for a book that has not been translated or published outside the United States. What’s particularly interesting from my point of view is that there’s a very good chance that the editor of this new imprint will be interested in THE CHRONICLES OF KING DAVID which I’ve had sitting on the backburner for quite a while. Not only that, but there’s plenty of time to finish as I’m already some 40k words into it.
The only potential drawback is I don’t know exactly how I’ll do that while simultaneously writing another set of three novels for different publisher. Unfortunately, the fact that it’s a good problem doesn’t mean that it isn’t one.