The Okal Rel Universe in evolution and in the world.

 
Alison's new fantasy series is featured in her interview with Fantasy Book Critic. This is the first of her trilogy. She mentions Throne Price (2001) in the interview. The covers for her new series are gorgeous. And the series is based on a really original fantasy vision, and executed with all Alison's precision in world-building that she has demonstrated in her science fiction titles.

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posted by Lynda at 19:33   1 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 1 comments links to this post

 

SF author Tanya Huff read and threatened the audience with cat stories when the questions flagged, Oct 7, 2009 at Books and Company in Prince George, B.C. I met and enjoyed a pre-reading chat with Rob Budde. Tanya read her classic bartender story from Space Inc. edited by Julie E. Czerneda. I recognized the anthology because Alison Sinclair had a doctor story in it. Tanya is seen here on the Books and Co stage mischievously signing a "Diving Book" that a guy in the audience jokingly offered up when Tanya declared she's sign anything. She penned him quite an opus while people with her books for signing waited patiently and he began to wonder, aloud, "What are you writing?" Guess we'll never now. :-)

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The very cool Jessica Strider of the World's Biggest Bookstore in Toronto has put out her list of books for May 2009 ... and Part 5: Far Arena is included in the list of Trade Paperbacks. Also exciting to see Alison's new novel, Darkborn in the list. Darkborn is entirely unrelated to Okal Rel. It's the first of her new fantasy series.

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I hope that your work on your next book is going well. I know you and  
Brian have a pretty aggressive publication schedule set out, and I'm  
sure it's a daunting task to bring all of the storylines in your head  
to the page. sometimes it can feel so limiting to put things on the  
page -- suddenly, the events are all so defined. Often I prefer the  
liberties I can take in my imagination before stories become trapped  
in the bindings of a book.
             from an e-mail message Feb 22, 2009

This comment from ORU editor Richard Janzen struck a resonance with me, as I take a deep breath and face tackling book 7. Miss Alison. Grateful for the support of Brian Hades, Justyn Perry, Marie Bilodeau and Lynn Perkins on the publishing front. Paul Strickland recently volunteered to help with profiles of first expansion and other "connected" people for Bridges in June 2009. Krysia Anderson gave me a nice surprise last night, when I got home from a long day of wrestling with ergonomic problems at work, by engaging in discussion of her short story in progress for anthology 4. And I read a bit of the post-wedding scene that book 7 starts with, in which Sam O'Pearl is contratulating herself on pulling off a trick event-of-the-century ... just before Eler starts a brawl.

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A while back, Alison launched the ORU Concordance on tiddly wiki. Today, I finally got around to making the link available on the ORU site, as well as a downloaded copy of the concordance which will be google-searchable.

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Just posted the text of this entry, by Alison, to the First Expansion list of creatives who support and contribute to the ORU. The concordance is coming along. Alison is doing her best to convince me to move the whole ORU website (long acknowledged to be a messy attic trunk of stuff) into a tidier, more modern web presence. Stuff she and I have been doing with the Concordance, on tiddlywiki, is encouraging me to face the prospect of the Big Overhaul. Still makes me hyperventilate a bit, though. Guess I'm the Silver Demish traditionalist here, to her Nersallian "but it will work so much better if ..." We'll keep you posted. :-) The concordance-in-progress can be found at http://okalrel.tiddlyspot.com/ . If you know the ORU well enough to help us populate the concordance, by all means get in touch!

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posted by Lynda at 10:45   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 

Thanks to Alison Sinclair, the ORU has a new play place - a tiddly wiki to be used for an ORU Concordance project.

Alison discovered tiddly wiki in pursuit of her own notetaking. See, for example, her World Building notes complete with her own sumptuous computer-graphics artwork in the header bar.

Lynda and Alison are playing around getting it right, including coming up with an editing protocol so we don't clobber each other's work. First Expansion are invited to join in as co-editors.

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