Rosemary Kirstein update
Feb. 26th, 2009 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexxkayAt Boskone, I attended both a reading by and a kaffeeklatch with Rosemary Kirstein, author of the excellent Steerswomen books. (Earlier reviews by me here and here, and a good review by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
siderea here.)
First up, the question everyone's asking: No definite ETA on the next book, though there was a (totally not a promise) indication that it might be less than two years. She's got a full-time non-writing job that is apparently fairly soul-draining, and doesn't leave her a lot of energy for her creative work :-(
I had earlier gotten the impression that she had written the entirety of _City in the Crags_, but then she realized that another book was needed to go before that. My current (still possibly incorrect) understanding is that she was partway into writing CitC when she had that realization, and switched to the current book.
The current book is still untitled. While working on it, she has had lots of realizations about future plot elements, so hopefully the writing of the later books will go faster: she has many scenes planned out in her head that she is eager to get to and write down. (She was careful not to give spoilers, although clearly frustrated, and wishing she could talk about coming developments with us.)
She read (most of) the first chapter of the new book to us. She had had read it before at earlier cons, but she can't read the stuff she's currently working on without massive spoilers.
Her reading style was fairly poor, though not the worst I've heard. Had an interesting hall conversation withdsrtao in which he opined that he could contribute alot to conventions by offering his services to certain authors as a reader. The author would show up, introduce him, and let him give a reading that was actually performative, rather than dry and flat as they typically are. I encouraged him to explore this as an actual proposal, not just an idle notion.
siderea here.)First up, the question everyone's asking: No definite ETA on the next book, though there was a (totally not a promise) indication that it might be less than two years. She's got a full-time non-writing job that is apparently fairly soul-draining, and doesn't leave her a lot of energy for her creative work :-(
I had earlier gotten the impression that she had written the entirety of _City in the Crags_, but then she realized that another book was needed to go before that. My current (still possibly incorrect) understanding is that she was partway into writing CitC when she had that realization, and switched to the current book.
The current book is still untitled. While working on it, she has had lots of realizations about future plot elements, so hopefully the writing of the later books will go faster: she has many scenes planned out in her head that she is eager to get to and write down. (She was careful not to give spoilers, although clearly frustrated, and wishing she could talk about coming developments with us.)
She read (most of) the first chapter of the new book to us. She had had read it before at earlier cons, but she can't read the stuff she's currently working on without massive spoilers.
Her reading style was fairly poor, though not the worst I've heard. Had an interesting hall conversation with
dsrtao in which he opined that he could contribute alot to conventions by offering his services to certain authors as a reader. The author would show up, introduce him, and let him give a reading that was actually performative, rather than dry and flat as they typically are. I encouraged him to explore this as an actual proposal, not just an idle notion.