{"id":5911,"date":"2012-04-11T15:35:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T20:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2012\/04\/11\/huge-news-3-merlin-s-blade-publishing-schedule\/"},"modified":"2012-04-11T15:35:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T20:35:31","slug":"huge-news-3-merlin-s-blade-publishing-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2012\/04\/11\/huge-news-3-merlin-s-blade-publishing-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"HUGE NEWS  #3: The Merlin&#8217;s Blade Publishing Schedule!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although it is apt to change, Zondervan&#8217;s publishing plan is currently like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Merlin&#8217;s Blade <\/strong>&#8211; February 2013<\/li>\n<li><strong>Merlin&#8217;s Shadow <\/strong>&#8211; August 2013<\/li>\n<li><strong>Merlin&#8217;s Nightmare <\/strong>&#8211; February 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>So fans will only have to wait six months between releases,<\/strong> and not the usual year. After working since 2006 on the novels, it will be very strange that all of them will be out in a single 12 month window!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The only way I can keep up with that pace<\/strong> is that I&#8217;ve already written book 2, and have most of book 3 plotted out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I thought this would be a good time to give thanks to God<\/strong> as well as to all those that have helped me along the way, not only in my writing, but also through life:<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<ul>\n<li>Christopher Board <\/li>\n<li>Gary Thomas Wood <\/li>\n<li>My wife and kids <\/li>\n<li>My extended family <\/li>\n<li>Mark Lattery <\/li>\n<li>Richard Coleman <\/li>\n<li>Tegid <\/li>\n<li>L. B. Graham <\/li>\n<li>Wayne Thomas Batson <\/li>\n<li>Christopher Hopper <\/li>\n<li> Scott Appleton <\/li>\n<li>Douglas Bond <\/li>\n<li> S. D. Smith <\/li>\n<li>Brandon Barr <\/li>\n<li>Keanan Brand <\/li>\n<li>Marcus Goodyear <\/li>\n<li>John Otte <\/li>\n<li>Daniel Struck <\/li>\n<li>Jeff Gerke  <\/li>\n<li>Randy Ingermanson <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<ul>\n<li>Jeffrey Overstreet <\/li>\n<li>Stephen Lawhead  <\/li>\n<li>The Lausers and all the folks at HolyWorlds.com <\/li>\n<li>Frank Creed and the Lost Genre Guild <\/li>\n<li>Judy Shoaf and the ArthurNetters <\/li>\n<li>Nichole White and the others I met through Authonomy.com <\/li>\n<li>Nick Burns and everyone at Burns Family Studios <\/li>\n<li>All my loyal blog followers, thank you for believing in me! <\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Luella Miller and the others at the Christian Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Blog Tour  <\/li>\n<li>Les Stobbe, my agent beyond extraordinaire <\/li>\n<li>Jacque Alberta, my editor at Zondervan <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>I can honestly say<\/strong> that there are lots of other writers better than myself that also deserve to be published, yet are not. All I can say is &#8230; Keep writing! Keep trying! You&#8217;re time will come if you don&#8217;t give up!<\/p>\n<p><strong>And everyone, make sure you tune in tomorrow<\/strong> to hear about some of my creative plans to promote Merlin&#8217;s Blade!<\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.zondervan.com\/images\/product\/original\/9780310735076.JPG?w=1200\" alt=\"Merlin's Blade Preliminary Cover\" title=\"Merlin's Blade Preliminary Cover\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<th><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2012\/04\/09\/huge-news-1-merlin-s-blade-has-been-accepted-by-a-publisher\">Day One:<\/a><\/strong><\/th>\n<td>Announcement of the publishing contract<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2012\/04\/10\/huge-news-2-merlin-s-blade-publisher-revealed\">Day Two:<\/a><\/strong><\/th>\n<td>The revelation of the name of the publisher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2012\/04\/11\/huge-news-3-merlin-s-blade-publishing-schedule\">Day Three:<\/a><\/strong><\/th>\n<td>Disclosure of the publishing schedule<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2012\/04\/12\/huge-news-4-the-merlin-s-blade-promotion-plan\">Day Four:<\/a><\/strong><\/th>\n<td>Announcement of my promotion plans<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Views: 28<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nAlthough it is apt to change, Zondervan&#8217;s publishing plan is currently like this: Merlin&#8217;s Blade &#8211; February 2013 Merlin&#8217;s Shadow&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2012\/04\/11\/huge-news-3-merlin-s-blade-publishing-schedule\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;HUGE NEWS  #3: The Merlin&#8217;s Blade Publishing Schedule!&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,14,15,16,36,5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-merlin-spiral","category-1-merlins-blade","category-2-merlins-shadow","category-3-merlins-nightmare","category-progress-reports","category-publishers","category-zondervan","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/978031073507628.jpg?fit=399%2C600","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67v0M-1xl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}