*g* Olaf, we're going to have to recruit you ;)

Yep, what's on the News page (which is undergoing some rennovations, more to come) is as much as I know about Tad's next works. Mainstreamish noir fantasy. Should be great fun!!

Olaf knows stuff about one day after I do - very impressive...

This just in from yesterday's Publishers Marketplace:

Tad Williams's SLEEPING LATE ON JUDGMENT DAY, HAPPY HOUR IN HELL, and ANGELS RUSH IN, a new urban fantasy series about an afterlife investigator, who searches for a missing soul and finds himself caught in a battle much larger than he could have imagined, to Betsy Wollheim at Daw, in a major deal, by Matt Bialer at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates (NA).

These are different worktitles than the ones on the homepage (at least for two of the books) , but I think the announcement on Publishersmarketplace.com is late in coming and the worktitles might have changed since the actual sale.

http://sfscope.com/2009/04/tad-williams … -fant.html


Tad Williams starting new fantasy series with DAW
By Ian Randal Strock     April 3, 2009

Tad Williams sold a new urban fantasy series to long-time editor Betsy Wollheim at DAW, via agent Matt Bialer of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates.

Bialer's assistant, Lindsay Ribar, says that "as this is his first urban fantasy series, each book will be significantly shorter than his usual epic fantasy fare."

In the series, "Doloriel is an angel. He doesn't know who he used to be back on Earth, but now he works as an afterlife investigator for the Heavenly Host, making sure the souls being judged haven't inflated their claims. It's a minor job, but a cool one, since it means he often gets to go back to Earth to investigate, wearing a body and calling himself Bobby Dollar—or Bobby D. Doloriel's latest assignment as Bobby D is supposed to be routine: figure out what happened to a recently disappeared soul, finish the paperwork, and make it look good for the folks upstairs. But a series of not-so-coincidental encounters—including one with a terribly attractive demon named Sennaie—makes him sure that there's more at stake here than one missing soul.

"Knowing that he's in over his head, Bobby D tries to pull out, but his bosses won't let him. Somehow, his identity—more specifically, his identity from his former life back on Earth—is the key to the entire mystery, and he has to find out who he was before he becomes an unwitting pawn in a game of power that could end in the destruction of the entire human race."

Just found something interesting in an old interview with Tad that might relate to the new series:

and I have [...] other future projects I’m planning, tentatively titled „AND MINISTERS OF GRACE“, [...] a Heaven-and-Hell Cold War thriller (and angel sent back to earth to solve a crime, with the reluctant aid of various demons...

This sounds like the new series, but "And Ministers of Grace" is also the title of Tad's story for George R.R. Martin's WARRIORS anthology, so will this story be somehow related to the new series?

By the way, I think the new series needs a name: Dolorian, Angel P.I.

this sounds cool! any word on a new street date?