For the last couple weeks, many tumblers have been falling into place in many locks – but at last, I can announce:  Tor will publish my novel, Three Parts Dead.

I’m so excited that it’s difficult to figure out what more to write – maybe I should just take a page from Victor Hugo’s publisher and post a single exclamation point.  I spend a lot of time in front of my keyboard, and it’ll be wonderful to see the product of that time out in the world.  My editor at Tor is really supportive, and excited about the book; Weronika’s been wonderful in shepherding the manuscript through various stages of submission and review.  The folks at Operation Awesome made the initial introduction, and if it hadn’t been for my friend Sam Justice’s urging, I wouldn’t have decided to buckle down and query in December.  Not to mention the constant encouragement I’ve received from wife, family, and friends down the years, without which I would have thrown my keyboard through the window, and followed it soon after…

And now I start to hear the Oscar band playing off stage, and the host advances with his shepherd’s crook…

The funniest thing about this whole process is that the further you get, the more work there is to do.  A long road stretches from here to final publication, and along that road I need to turn in at least one more book (hopefully more than one!) in addition to the marketing, planning, and general madness.  Oddly, this prospect doesn’t phase me one bit.  I feel like the young gentleman in the painting on the cover of Lord Byron’s Novel, who has obviously just reached the peak of one mountain, and stares out at an endless vista of further mountains to climb.

Well, let’s climb some more mountains.

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Curious about the details?  Want a basic description of the plot?  Publishers Marketplace has the capsule description, but I think it’s behind a paywall – Weronika’s posted it to her tumblr.  Publishers Weekly’s description is in the free and clear on their website.