Tad Williams

6/26/08

Tad and Deb back from New York. Highlights of trip include meetings with agents Matt Bialer and Teri Tobias, Tad's US publisher DAW Books, Brenda Bowen at Harper Collins, publisher of The Dragons of Ordinary Farm; plus television interest, and meeting with Katya Pendill (for web consultancy.)

6/23/08

Brenda Bowen has given the thumbs-up to the second draft of The Dragons of Ordinary Farm. Cover artwork has been finalized and jacket is in production.

6/21/08

Tad has delivered his short story, The Lamentably Comical Tragedy (or The Laughably Tragic Comedy) of Lixal Laqavee (length approx. 10,400 words), to George R R Martin for inclusion in his forthcoming Jack Vance-themed anthology.

5/21/08

Deb's finished her revision to The Dragons of Ordinary Farm: Tad's now revising for consistency of voice and more "muscularity" in the tone. Draft of cover copy received today from Brenda Bowen. Tad's arrived in France after an unfortunately difficult journey.

5/20/08

Sketch for cover artwork for Odfarm received from Brenda Bowen at Harper Collins. Tad, Deb and Matt the Wonder-Agent all delighted. Tiny revisions requested.

5/2/2008

Tad Williams and Deborah Beale have recently sold The Dragons Of Ordinary Farm, their five-book young-adult fantasy series, to Klett-Cotta in Germany and Brenda Bowen at Harper in the US, for her new imprint, The Bowen Press.  UK sale currently being negotiated.

5/2/2008

Tad currently 40% through first draft of Shadowrise. Deb almost done with editorial revisions to The Dragons of Ordinary Farm.

5/1/2008

New interview with Tad at FlamesRising.com. Monica Valentinelli, project manager for Flames Rising, asks Tad "the" burning questions she's always wondered about. Tad talks about his writing style, favorite villains, and his new young adult fantasy series co-authored with Deborah Beale.

5/1/2008

Paul Storey exhibition in France – May 23 - Sep 22, 2008
(Clicking image opens PDF; 3.46 MB)

Tad is currently finishing his revisions to Deborah’s first draft of The Dragons Of Ordinary Farm, as well as writing Shadowrise (Shadowmarch Book 3). His book with the artist Paul Storey – a short (for Tad) novel based on Wagner’s The Ring Cycle and the Nibelungen tales – will be written in 2008. Tad has recently written an introduction to Gormenghast, the second volume of the Gormenghast trilogy, to be reissued by Overlook Press.

Deborah is working with Tad on The Dragons Of Ordinary Farm, writing her first draft of the second book in the series (working title: A Witch At Ordinary Farm), and producing this web site. She is also intermittently working on Urchin’s Luck, another collaboration for which a (currently overlong) first draft exists. Urchin’s Luck is Tailchaser's Song with raccoons.

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