Tuesday, March 14, 2006

My first novel

Well I finally get to announce the coolest news ever. I've signed the contract to write my first novel! It is for Wizards of the Coast and is set in their new shared world of Eberron.

For those who don't know, Eberron is an extremely cool world created by Keith Baker. Magic is interwoven into the society, and acts as an almost technological power. But at the same time the world is big enough to write gritty fantasy or heroic quests or whatever. The scope is what I really like about it.

I can't say what the book is called yet, or what it's about, as that would give it away. But it will be number 2 in a stand alone series and will come out sometime in 2007.

5 comments:

Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell said...

Congrats, Paul!

Paul Crilley said...

Thank you! I've started on it now and am 2500 words in. The 90k word count seems rather daunting at the moment.

Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell said...

I hear that. Have you set a daily word count goal?

Stuart said...

Congrats on the novel!

Another War-torn entrant here, just didn't make it as far as you and Marcy. :)

Looking forward to reading you novel next year.

Stuart

Paul Crilley said...

Hey Stuart--

Many thanks for your comments, and am looking forward to hearing what
you have to say about the novel. Like you say it will be early next year.

Best
Paul