It is Accomplished!

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The final final draft is officially delivered to my publisher!

Here we go again. This post is an update to this one, which updated this one, which was in turn an update to this one. It’s always good to remind the audience of the previous episode before diving into the new one.

Makeup Test has been delivered and accepted, so this is the final! It is now in the hands of the illustrator and the copy editor. While technically I delivered this one late, it isn’t scheduled to go to the copy editor for another couple of weeks, so in a way it’s kind of early. In any case, it’s done. I can’t wait for y’all to see it in November.

I’m now working on the final draft of Winter Kept us Warm, the sequel to The Widening Gyre, both of which I’ll deliver to the publisher this summer. I’m also working on Incandescent, the next Winter Tale. This one is harder, and is making me question all kind of assumptions about gender, identity, and what it means to love. It’s set at the Renaissance Fair I introduced in Blackthorne Faire (coming in January), but it’s a stand-alone. Also? One of the characters is none other than Juliette Capulet, of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliette. At this point. I think.

This one is turning out to be a lot harder to write than I’d expected, and I’m still not sure it’ll work. I’ll tell you more about what I’m wrestling with this book in another post.

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John Adcox (he/him) has been a cross-media communications and content strategist, producer, user experience designer, and writer for more than twenty years. Presently, he is the CEO of The Story Plant/Gramarye Media. Over the course of his career in advertising, marketing, and new media John has held a number of titles including Executive Producer, Vice President of Digital Media, Creative Director, Vice President of Marketing and Creative Services, and even CEO. In addition, he has hosted a radio show, acted professionally (although not since age 15), designed and written scripts for computer games, written a play for a professional theatre company, taught university astronomy, and written reviews and articles on topics including mythology, psychology, technology, religion, marketing strategy, and fantasy. John was the Lay Leader at Inman Park United Methodist Church, and is now a member of Neighborhood Church Atlanta, a progressive, challenging, intellectually-engaging, warm, tightly-knit, and activist congregation that encourages connection, questions, and exploration. His many, many interests include books and literature (he is insufferably proud of his library), religion and philosophy, mythology, the Arthurian legends, travel, baseball, science fiction and fantasy, marketing communications, Celtic music and lore, new media, theatre, and politics, not to mention astronomy and cosmological physics, as well as the lesser sciences. He was knighted by the late King Richard Booth of the nation/village of Hay-on-Wye (the famous book town on the border between England and Wales) and was ordained a minister on the Internet (he recently performed his first wedding). So he is properly the Right Reverend Sir John. He is very happily married to the fabulous Carol Bales (Lady Bales of Hay). The couple makes their home in Atlanta. John has published three novels, Raven Wakes the World: A Winter Tale, Christmas Past: A Ghostly Winter Tale, and The Star in the East: A Winter Tale of Ancient Mystery. Two more, Make Up Test: A Rom-Com Winter Tale and Blackthorne Faire are coming soon, and many more are forthcoming.

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