Ken Rand: August 2007 Archives

Y'all,

Port Chicago Isn't There Anymore--But We Still Call It Home is DONE. I've said that before, I believe, as I've touched several milestones that felt like 'the end,' and it makes me wonder when a book is really, finally, finished. When you write 'the end' on the last page of the first draft? When you finish the 'final' edit, macro or micro? When it sells, or when it goes to print? Some special award or recognition? It's all a process--no news there. I'm realizing the process RIGHT NOW. I just got my POD copy of Port Chicago Isn't There a few minutes ago from Lulu. It arrived sooner than I thought. There are some tweaks I need to make--I should have a TOC for the ARCs, IMHO, and an author's bio in the back, but I can proceed for now without an index and the memorial list and that short '3 questions' chapter I've been chewing on. (Come to think of it, the book can be published--as is--NOW.) I'll see how easy it is to make the tweaks this week. If it isn't easy, I'll fuggetaboutit and order 25 of what I got. It'll do for my purposes--solicit corrections, additions and comment from a select list of principle contacts.

I done it. There are more milestones yet, of course. When Patrick sets it, when we get a cover done, when he ships the first box of books, when I ship the first signed copy to the first buyer--and so on. More milestones—but I done it.

I done it.

I started this project in 1984. Quit several times. Worked on it almost daily for the past two years. Got rejected 116 times. Tens of thousands of hours of research and reading and writing, thousands of articles and documents parsed, millions of words written deleted and rewritten and edited, and hundreds of interviews conducted.

I done it.

By the way, if you don't know what I'm talking about it, read the intro to the book on my website. Comments welcome.

Ken

Read the introduction to Ken Rand's Port Chicago Isn't There Anymore--But We Still Call It Home at www.sfwa.org/members/Rand/. (to be published Saturday, July 26, 2008).

    -- I have Rock 'n' Roll Universe coming out in a few weeks as a free e-book (on my website).

    -- I have Where Angels Fear, a short story collection from Fairwood Press, coming out December 2007.

    -- I have Fairy BrewHaha at the Luckly Nickel Saloon, a reprint from Yard Dog Press in February, 2008.

    -- I have Port Chicago Isn't There Anymore--But We Still Call It Home from Media Man! Productions in July 2008.

    -- I have short story collection The Gods Perspire from Fairwood Press in late 2008.

Dragons of the Highlord Skies (Lost Chronicles vol. 2)

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman  

Wizards of the Coast, July 2007

Chris Stewart

Deseret Book, July 2007

Mistborn: The Final Empire (paperback)

Tor, July 31, 2007

Mistborn: The Well of Ascension (hardcover)

Brandon Sanderson

Tor, August 21, 2007

Julia Lawrence

Brushfire Press, August 2007

Tor, September 4, 2007

Shadow Mountain, September 11, 2007

Bloomsbury, September 18, 2007

Brandon Sanderson

Scholastic, October 1, 2007

Obert Skye

Shadow Mountain, October 1, 2007

Michael O. Tunnell

Dutton, October 4, 2007

Tunnel was just named to the Newbery committee

Daw Books, 2007 (unconfirmed)

Jessica Day George

Bloomsbury, January 8, 2008

James Dashner

Shadow Mountain, April 2008

Ken Rand

Five Star, May 2008

The cover art is by Alan M. Clark

Jeffrey S. Savage

Covenant Communications, 2008

Jeffrey S. Savage

Shadow Mountain, 2008

Thanks to Marny and Jani for the information!