The Okal Rel Universe in evolution and in the world.

 
Slow progress continues with Opus 4. Production date for Opus 4 and Opus 5 is summer 2010. Dreadful long delay getting these two anthologies into production! Partly due to my change in job, partly to changes at Absolute XPress, and partly due to my preoccupation with getting Part 6 and Part 7 of the saga written. Determined to see the anthologies in print this summer. I am very fond of some of the stories, and committed to all of them. Summer is the production slot available with Absolute XPress and David Lott is helping me with contracts and managing payments once the contracts are done. Meanwhile, I continue to make progress with Part 8: Gathering Storm. Now up to 80,000 words of the first draft. The majority of it is set at the first Cultural Exchange between the Reetions and the Gelacks, with some excursions for visits and rescues.

Labels: opus 4, Opus 5, Part 8: Gathering Storm

posted by Lynda at 07:32   2 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 2 comments links to this post

 
I updated the wanted page with progress for Opus 4, the next Okal Rel Legacies anthology. I've spoken with Brian Hades about the title and we're full steam ahead for a production slot. Working to get stories finalized.

Okal Rel Universe Anthology 4

• Companion Saga Book: Part 4: Throne Price


• Theme: "The past coming back to haunt you." (i.e. complicate
  the present)



• Editors: Shelia Flesher and Lynda Williams


• Claims to date:
  
  
  
  • Krysia Anderson - claimed Feb 14/09; confired Mar 09; submitted
    (Hyacynth Story)
  
  
  • Lexi - claimed Jan 25/09; Plot approved Feb; confirmed April 09;
    COMPLETE (Reverse Cinderella)
  
  
  • Hal Friesen - Claimed Feb 5/09; submitted June/09; touch-up edits
    in process; (Nestor)
  
  
  
  • Nicole - claimed feb 11/09; April 09, confirmed; draft submitted;
    (Den Eva Novices)
  
  
  • Mel Farrow - Claimed March 30, plot approved; draft submitted;.
    (Kenway and Theo)
  
  
  
  

Labels: opus 4

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"Grip is about knowing who you are and where you belong, even when the whole damned indifferent universe is trying to tell you otherwise." - Berinda, in "Roots of Identity", Opus 4, by author Lexie Pakulak.
This is the interior illustration, by Richard Bartrop, picturing protagonist Meg (short for Banimeg) in a genotyping office in the town of Eastport on FarHome. Richard is also the cover artist for Opus 4, which is currently in the editing stages and should be ready for production before Xmas 2009.

Labels: Lexie Pakulak, opus 4, Richard Bartrop

posted by Lynda at 09:53   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 


Artist Richard Bartrop sent me a sneak preview of his cover-in-progress for Opus 4, the fourth Okal Rel anthology. (The goal is to have these stories through editing, contracts out and back, the art in and paid for, and the book in production with Absolute XPress by the end of the summer, with print versions available by no later than Xmas 09.) I'm sharing a slice of the draft preview here.

Labels: anthology, art, opus 4, Richard Bartrop

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