The site still claims a release date of Spring '04 because that's the last official word I received from Deborah.  I actually just requested some updated info yesterday.

As soon as I find something out, I'll update the site.  Sorry if the information seems stale in the meantime.

I couldn't remember if the information stating spring 04 was there before the boards crashed or not.  I thought it might be too good to be true that Shadowmarch would be coming so quickly after War...Thanks for the info.

<silently wishing that Tad got the gift of supersonic writing or what have you for Christmas> =)

Hi Tad,
  Will you be going on a book-signing tour once the new version of Shadowmarch is published?  I wanted to make to your appearance at Borders in Sunnyvale in early December but had too much going on that day unfortunately.  Can't wait to read Shadowmarch again.
Jeff

DEVO wrote:

...I would think adjusting the names of months would cause serious confusion and mayhem in our government...

I see no difference. *eg*

~scuttles under a convenient rock~

It's too early for subtle! Too earl- Er. Noon. But still! ~chagrin~

Actually, I haven't decided on the title, yet.  Will it simply be "Shadowmarch" (with the second volume having a different name), or will that be the equivalent of "Otherland" and each volume will have a title?  I don't know.  Any feelings about that on the part of the reading public?

Length wise, it will be something like a hundred to a hundred and fifty (manuscript) pages longer than what was online.  Over two-thirds of that is the Qinnitan storyline.  (If you haven't seen the preview, you can find that in the "Story" section of this board.)

Well it better not get any later than November here *starts writing Christmas list*
Or can Santa get early copies??

djf wrote:

Renaming months? Not a bad idea. We could get rid of the stupid caesarean months and rename July and August to September and October, and so on.

I'm not sure I can deal with Hollowe'en being on December 31st. But on the plus side, I could get two birthdays every year - one on October 31st and one on December 31st. :)

Tad wrote:

Actually, I haven't decided on the title, yet. Will it simply be "Shadowmarch" (with the second volume having a different name), or will that be the equivalent of "Otherland" and each volume will have a title? I don't know. Any feelings about that on the part of the reading public?

If the theme of the series is going to be Shadowmarch in the same way Otherland was the theme for Otherland, then I'd say use "Shadowmarch, Name of Book One", "Shadowmarch, Name of Book Two" and so on. But if Shadowmarch is part of the "Something, Anything, or Nothing" saga the way Dragonbone Chair is part of "Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn", then maybe it should just be the title of the first book and not the entire series.

Having said all that, my personal preference would be for it to be the title of the first book and the series to be called something neat.

September - November is Spring in the Southern hemisphere - so its not a fib really.

I like the contest idea, if the contest was for the naming of the first books title and the series was called Shadowmarch.

Due to the nature of how Shadowmarch Book one was originally done, I think it would be really neat to have a contest for the title of the first book since it would incorporate the readers that much further into a book that, in many ways, everyone already has so actively participated in.

I echo Claudia - November is Spring in the Southern hemisphere, all ye Northern Hemisphere Tyrants Begone!

(I won't say 'just in time for Christmas', 'cause I won't wait until Christmas.)

(That said, WotF had a significant delay before coming out here, here's hoping Smarchy Books don't suffer the same.)

(Not that I had to wait for WotF, 'cause some nice Dragenkatten (?) send one for me birfday.)

I prefer 'Shadowmarch' to be the name of the series, and the books themselves to have individual or subtitles to seperate them.  Talking about Otherland always gets a bit confusing; out here the first book was only titled 'Otherland', with the subtitle 'City of Golden Shadow' hidden away on a single title page.  Never sure if people mean Otherland as a whole series or Otherland the first book.

arrr, publishing dates and marketing issues, the bane of the creative writer ;)

BUT since Tad has great publishers/editors and translators (and this is not self-evident!), overall working together as a good team (i suppose...), we can be sure to get another COMPLETED masterpiece of fantasy over the next years. yay!

and i too vote for Shadowmarch as title, and subtitles for the volumes. that´s the way it works best. of course, if Wolfshade´s thought proves right, and the story moves away into faraway regions, "The Shadowline", reminiscing our fanzine, would also sound nice. just an idea...