Thank you all. I wish I could do something about the e-book availability, but Penguin insists on the rights—but won’t put the e-book out simultaneously. Sigh. Please support me anyway. It’s not DAW’s fault. They’re a passenger on that situation, not directing it.
This is Betrayer’s official release date: it should ship now, if it hasn’t before.
by CJ | Apr 5, 2011 | Journal | 59 comments
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go for it, Sam’s gran. I sure wish CC could just make enough to meet our house payment. That ain’t happened yet.
If anybody knows anybody into sf that ISN’T on this site, give them this address and tell them drop by and join us!
Thanks. 😀
Thanks, CJ.
I do hope that as time passes, CC does begin to provide a goodly supply of bill paying wherewithall for you and Jane. This crappy economy is forcing many of us to explore new ways to earn hard, cold cash. Been to the grocery store lately? I almost passed out cold in front of the meat case the other day. And I let my husband fill the two gas tanks; I just can’t face the ugly numbers.
On a more pleasant subject: I finished Betrayer last night. I forced myself to actually read each and every page rather than zip through it at warp speed. I will, of course, go back and reread it to make sure I have wrung every itty-bitty drop of plot and character info out of it that I can.
I hope you don’t mind if I ask how close %wise CC comes to meeting the house payment? I would love to see the day come (if it ever does) when you can make enough from that site by itself that you can choose what to write on your own. It seems like it has been a while since you produced a totally new world, and I haven’t known if that was because of your publisher, your fans, or your own preference.
About 1/2 to [once] 2/3s of the house payment. Of course that doesn’t feed us or pay for gasoline or the taxes. But it really helps. I haven’t produced a new world because Harper, Warner, and Ballantine were shooting them down as fast as I could produce them. The new ‘model’ for megastore sales is to base orders on what of that ‘series’ sold last time, and every ‘new’ world was, of course, untried, and would get lousy orders. So it would get canceled.
You can’t take that kind of creative hammering for too long.
Jane and Lynn and I are cooperating in a world just for fun, on the Seeking North site. It’s a bit therapeutic for 3 somewhat battered writers, just to do something off the wall.
“Me, too!” post: just ordered Betrayer. It’ll arrive just in time for Tax Day. 😉
My copy arrived from Amazon! I am halfway through another book that was in my library bag, but I’ll be diving into it very soon! Happy anticipation! I’ve had an embarrassment of reading riches lately: a new Mary Daheim, a new Carola Dunn, a new J.D.Robb, a new Carolyn Hart, a new Spencer Quinn, a new Jill Paton Walsh, a new Anne Perry, and best of all, now a new C.J. Cherryh!
I really do wish you could sell the e-books for future Foreigner books on Closed Circle… I just saw Betrayer in a bookstore, but didn’t pick it up because I was hoping to find it as an e-book… no such luck though, all due to Penguin 🙁 I’d much rather have all my money going to support your creative endeavors, instead of having some of it lining the pockets of a publisher that doesn’t respect its own clients wishes…
My wife has banned any new “old school” books in our house… I’ll have to go on my knees tomorrow and beg for an exception, so I can run off and pick up Betrayer!
BTW… PLEASE write some new worlds… I’ve loved all of the ones you’ve created so far (don’t stop writing in any of the old ones either, as long as you *want* to write about in them!)
EXCELLENT! Of course, I stayed up FAR too late reading – considering I have to get up at 3:30 am to go to work, 11:30 definitely qualifies as ‘too late’. LOVED it – especially the ‘back and forth’ between Bren’s POV and Cajeiri’s –
No spoilers – but I am going to ding you on the previous book for a real howler – I re-read it before picking up Betrayer –
Pairuti, page 134: ‘By then, Pairuti was…over ninety years old, with four sons and two daughters by several marriages..all mature and married.
Two sons by a wife from the northern clans. One daughter by a remote relative of the Taibeni Ragi…One daughter and a son by a local wife…;
Pairuti, page 254: ‘Pairuti, like Geigi, had no children.’
Truly remarkable. I had marked those passages in Deceiver the first time I read it.
If you ever decide to revise that book – I’d put that bit on the short list for editing.
I’ve bought the last few atevi books from Borders, because the indie store I used to live near was too inconvenient to go to after I moved, and had a really *tiny* SF section. Borders was far and away the lesser of the brick&mortar “big box” evils. Of course, now that ALL Borders in Milwaukee, WI have been stripped to the walls and shuttered, I had to go back to said indie store — and their still-tiny SF section (hardcovers and trade pb’s only) at least had _Deceiver_… w00t!
Has anybody else dinged you re the number of Ilisidi’s “young men” who perished in the first raid on Najida? _Conspirator_ pp.297
“The dowager’s company” Algini said grimly, “lost Pejan and Rasano.”
Two, and *named*, even! Every reference since then, especially in _Deceiver_, indicates ‘Sidi-ma lost *one*.
Also, for some reason I can’t seem to use html tags in posts?!
So, this posting is a little old by now but IMO still the most appropriate place to comment:
Just finished Betrayer. Then re-read it again. Then obsessed on the bits I really, *really* liked (about Cajeiri & his household) a few times.
I think this is one of the very best of the Foreigner series (#4 Precursor has been my consistent favorite since it came out, but…), WELL worth the wait.
I’m especially thankful that your increased understanding (and the audience’s literacy level ;-)) about the nature of how man’chi works means you can get more, uh, intimate with the non-human characters’ viewpoints and not lose the reader. Absolutely wonderful work.
Thank you!