There's a video interview with Glen posted on youtube. He was at some french convention recently as a guest of honor, and was interviewed in French. Fortunately for the non-Francophones, including myself, Glen was able to provide his answers in English.
The interview lasts for almost an hour. During that time, Glen expands on many of the things he's mentioned in his online interviews. There's added depth, such as learning that the publishers who bought A Shadow of All Night Falling, but failed to release it, were Lancer (went out of business) and Dell (a warehouse fire led them to cancel all books not projected to be best-sellers). However, the real cause for excitement is that Glen mentioned that the two Black Company stories published in the past year, Tides Elba and Smelling Darkness, are really the first two chapters in the long-promised new Black Company novel A Pitiless Rain! The full book is in-progress, and takes place during the five years between The Black Company and Shadows Linger. The equally long-promised Port of Shadows will be a coda to the series, if it ever gets written and published.
Glen didn't say anything about Working the Gods' Mischief. I'm still in the dark about that one, as the recent mass market paperback of Surrender to the Will of the Night makes no mention of it! It isn't listed on the various sites which show publishers' expected list of books to come out in the next six months, so I now wonder if, not when, it will come out. I hope that Tor is simply trying not to compete with Nightshade's release of the three concluding Dread Empire novels.
I picked up the re-issue of Reap the East Wind a few weeks ago. I'm annoyed that its dimensions are smaller than those of the other Nightshade Dread Empire editions. Now they'll look awkward next to each other on the shelf. Yes, I really am that petty. That said, the book turned out nicely, with no noticeable typos to suggest the text was OCR-scanned out of the original. I read the new edition, and if anything, the book was better than I remembered. Many hints were dropped that I missed upon my first reading, all those years ago.
I'll reread An Ill Fate Marshalling when its re-issue becomes available in a couple of weeks. Publishers Weekly did something of a hatchet job on the book, which you can read here. I suppose the reviewer is more accustomed to reading about chick detectives kicking butt, or dating vampires, or some other sort of "hip and modern" story.
The real excitement remains the January 2012 publication of A Path to Coldness of Heart. Follow to link and you'll see that Amazon has made sections of the book available to preview. I'm already intrigued to learn that Kristen and Daal are finding Sherilee quite annoying! I wonder how that will play out. (I always had a fondness for the Sherilee character because at the time I first read An Ill Fate Marshalling, there was a girl in my dorm who fit Cook's description of her perfectly)
Finally, the image to this post is an album cover from Russian folk metal band Arkona. I like them, though they aren't my favorites. The same can be said for Korpiklaani. The two bands play NYC the day after Thanksgiving, and I'll probably be on hand at the Gramercy Theater to catch them. Even if neither is at the top of my list, I still want to seize what may be my only opportunity to see them. It should be a lot of fun. Rock on and read on, everyone!
