I knew about this some weeks ago, but now it’s been publicly announced I think it’s time I said something about it myself.
Stephanie Smith, the head of Voyager and the lady who was instrumental in getting The Fallen Moon published in Australia, and following that The Risen Sun as well, has resigned.

She’s been in charge of Voyager for 15 years – since the imprint was first launched, in fact, so she’s a big deal and in my opinion she’s also one of the main reasons why Voyager is the biggest and most successful fantasy publisher in Australia. On a personal level, I would also like to say what a lovely lady she is and how much I respect her. She did the major edits on all three published books, and also for The Shadow’s Heir. Before she formally leaves at the end of the month she’ll also give me the edits for book five, The Shadowed Throne. Hopefully, as she’s going to continue doing freelance editing for Voyager, she’ll edit future installments as well.

Today I found out that her replacement is a lady called Deonie Fiford, who I haven’t met but who comes highly recommended, not least by Stephanie herself! Here’s hoping I get on as well with her as I do with Stephanie, which I’m sure I will!

Gonna miss you, Stephanie. We all will.

ETA: In an odd coincidence, Stephanie informed me that she’s going to go and live in Tasmania from now on – the very same place where The Dark Griffin was born and where I wrote the first few chapters in a scrappy old notebook. Funny old thing, life. Good for her – Tasmania is an amazing place!

Well, it’s been a while since we’ve seen one of these: an actual piece of actual news! To do with the actual books!

I’ve now signed the contract for the American edition of the second trilogy, but for unknown reasons the release dates weren’t included. I made an enquiry, and can now inform you that the first installment, The Shadow’s Heir, will hit American shelves in January of 2013. The other two will follow, possibly at 6-monthly intervals, or possibly one-monthly as with the first trilogy – I’ll let you know once I find out.

Anyway, mark it on you calendars, American readers! Er, when you have your 2013 calendar, that is. You know, once they’re on sale. It’ll be a nice 27th birthday present to me!

Yo everyone.
I know I said I would be posting up the other entries for the contest, but unfortunately someone was foolish enough to buy me a copy of Skyrim for Christmas, so… yeah. Time kind of slips away, you know?

Anyway, there’s still one other thing to be done before the other entries go up. Over the holidays I gave it some thought, and I have decided that due to the high quality of the entries I got I will be selecting three runners up from among the remaining entries. These three runners up will be entitled to a signed copy of book four, The Shadow’s Heir, when it comes out later this year. Or, if said runners up are lacking a copy of one of the three books that are already out, they may ask for that instead.

I shall be announcing the runners up shortly, so stay tuned!

Katie’s new and awesome website is coming very, very soon!