The First Review Of FIX Is In!
As y’all know, the third and final book in my ‘Mancer series, FIX, is coming out in September. The review copies went out on Friday (and are still available if you’re a book reviewer).
Today is my birthday, so it’s really nice to get the first good review through Twitter:
I finished reading through my eARC of @ferretthimself FIX this morning. It definitely sticks the landing, something I’d been afraid of.
— Cassandra Khaw (@casskhaw) July 3, 2016
And it is a harder book, in some ways, than the other two. There’s still a lot of action, still a lot of adventure, but FIX cuts into
— Cassandra Khaw (@casskhaw) July 3, 2016
something darker than dimension-eating monstrosities. It carves its way into questions of familial strife, poisoned love, distrust.
— Cassandra Khaw (@casskhaw) July 3, 2016
It tears down the idea of family, and points out all the ways we can fuck up our relationships with the ones we love. And it is /heavy/.
— Cassandra Khaw (@casskhaw) July 3, 2016
Because even though we’re talking about earth-shatteringly powerful mages, their problems are relatable, painful to read.
— Cassandra Khaw (@casskhaw) July 3, 2016
Full disclosure: Cassandra’s been a huge fan of the series since the beginning, so much so that I Tuckerized her in Fix. (In many ways, she has the most tragic death.) But if you’re a fan of the ‘Mancer series, this is a superfan saying that I managed to cobble together a good ending for what was never intended to be a trilogy, but sorta turned out that way.
So if you want to buy it, you know, preorders make a publisher happy.
And also, after having spent literally a week trying to figure out how to start my next novel, I finally cracked the opening 583 words in the first half hour of my birthday. This is after experimenting with twenty-five different attempts, four serious, all of which sucked on some level or another. But now I feel nothing but a strange giddiness, because the other attempts weren’t bad, they just weren’t as good as the novel I wanted to write.
So that’s there. I’ll be making a post for the Clarion Echo soon, detailing what I did and how I did it, and if you want to walk through the novel-writing process with me, remember, all you have to do is donate $10 to the Clarion Science Fiction Writers’ Workshop. It’s a bargain!
And now I’m off to eat too much cake, drink too much bourbon, and operate power tools. Just as I beat not one, but two videogames yesterday and ate too much cake.
IT ARE MAH BIRFDAI YAYYYYY