I’m glad to say that I am delivering the copy edit of Deep Water today - and the exciting thing is that I’m delivering it to the London offices of Orbit, and will get to meet my British editor and publisher.

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Blood Ties is now out in the US - the UK edition will be coming soon.  This is very exciting and rather strange - there are now two slightly different versions of the book on my shelves, which is unusual, as different countries usually have different covers.   

In a nice synchronicity, Robert over at www.fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com has just posted a terrific review of Blood Ties which ends “In short, Pamela Freeman’s Blood Ties will probably be one of my favorite fantasy novels of the year and I absolutely can’t wait to finish reading the trilogy “.  Read the rest of the review here.  Robert is also giving away copies of Blood Ties.  Click here for details. 

I’m also glad to announce that the manuscript of Deep Water, Book 2 of the trilogy, has gone to copy edit, so for better or worse it’s mostly finished and will be out August/September.  I am now grappling with the third book, Full Circle…

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We’ve had some great reviews already in anticipation of Blood Ties’ launch in the US.  Publishers Weekly was kind: I like the bit about ‘elegantly rounded characters’…  (See the full text here - you have to scroll down a fair way.)

www.romantictimes.com thought the book had ‘a wide range of intriguing characters…Freeman has crafted a rich and magical world where insurgency is definitely brewing.’

My favourite, however, is a thoughtful and insightful review by John on Grasping for the Wind, which also features an interview with me. 

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My advance copy of the US edition of Blood Ties arrived yesterday.  Great excitement!  It looks terrific.   It’s very rare for a book to keep the same cover in Australia, the US and the UK, but Blood Ties will, thanks to Darian Causby’s great design.  Look for it in North American bookshops in April. More from Orbit about it here.

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I will be speaking at Wiscon 32 at the end of May in Madison, Wisconsin.  Wiscon is dubbed ‘The world’s leading feminist science fiction convention’ and offers a stimulating and extremely varied program, including quite a lot about fantasy writing.  I’ll be giving presentations and reading (maybe even from the new book, Deep Water!).  Come and meet me there!

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I’m very pleased to say that Goldmann Verlag, part of the Random House group, has bought the German language rights to the Castings Trilogy, so keep an eye out for the German translation, probably sometime in 2009. Other foreign language rights enquiries should go to Orbit Australia, part of Hachette Livre Australia. All other rights enquiries to Australian Literary Management, www.austlit.com.

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This morning I delivered the structural edit of Deep Water to Orbit, so everything is on track for August/September release.   Now all I have to do is write the third book - Full Circle.

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I’ll be appearing at the NSW Writers’ Centre’s Contemporary Fiction Festival on Sunday, 29th March, participating in a panel about writing your first adult novel - lots to say about that after writing 17 kids’ books before I published Blood Ties! See www.nswwriterscentre.org.au for details.

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Last weekend I went to the Aurealis Awards in Brisbane. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors and the winners, especially Cat Sparks and David Kowalski, the winners of the Golden Aurealis Awards for short and long fiction, respectively. A special mention must be made of Kate Forsyth, whose Chain of Charms series won FIVE times - that is, she was shortlisted for books 2-5 in the series and the judges couldn’t choose between them, so she received the Aurealis for Best Children’s Long Fiction for all of them. (The full list of winners is at www.aurealis.com.au)

It was a lovely evening and congratulations should go to all the organisers, especially Awards Director Ron Serdiuk.

The Awards weekend includes a breakfast and an industry seminar. Both were well attended and a great place for new writers to make contacts in the industry.

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