Black Halo Countdown: Two

Yes!  I can count!

Our countdown to the release of Black Halo: The Aeons’ Gate Book Two: Aeon Harder continues!  Right here!  Right now!  I asked for questions last time and got kind of a buttload of them, on the blog, on the emails, on the twitters and one guy who drove past me and screamed something out the window before he crashed violently, killing dozens.

So, you know, things just got a little intense.

Anyway, I am going to answer these questions in an attempt to titillate and tolerate and maybe tantalize your palettes.  But I never said I wouldn’t be coy about it.

Bryan writes…

By the end of it have we met all the POV characters or will the 3rd book add more?

I’m not quite as adept as George Martin at planning vast schemes.  I never rule out the possibility that one character or another might have something to say that requires us to get into their heads for a moment.

Erik Mallows Edwards writes…

I don’t have a question, and hard-candy rots teeth.

But…  congratulations to you Sam all the same.  That’s it really.  As promisied I’ll give it a go, and can you really, do much better than that?

Aw, thanks, Eric!  And while you don’t have a question, I do have an answer for you.  Yes, I can do better, but only if you were a girl with low self-esteem who played the acoustic guitar.

…it’s a complicated plan.

Rick writes…

Well, you see I have this thing for Kataria. Will any artwork be included in “Black Halo”. Nothing weird going on here understand, but inquiring minds need to know.

Pre-orders from Amazon say only paperbacks are available. I want to get a hardcover, first, first and signed to match my copy of “Tome of the Undergates”. Where do I go?

I don’t know if she goes for round-ears.  We are updating the Lost Pages with some new artwork very soon, though.  I would keep an eye out for it, were I you.

As for hardcovers?  Pyr tends to only do paperbacks.  So you might have to wait a bit to get a matching hardcover from Gollancz in the UK in a few months.

Felicity writes…

Do we get to find out what happened to the dragonmen and Gariath history?

Yes.

Dave writes…

Here’s two question for you – is someone going to push themselves in between Lenk and Kataria?
and
was it easier with Black Halo in terms of writing the book (compared to Tome)?

At least three.

and

I don’t know, really.  The need to be clever has sort of diminished with Black Halo, to the point that I can kind of just flex my muscles and do whatever the heck I want to.  As Bryan noted in his comment, the prose has really gotten stronger this time around.  I suppose improvement is simply inevitable.

Mundanename asks…

Does Gariath have a higher or lower body count in BLACK HALO?

Gariath has really entered his artistic phase in Black Halo. He feels less of a need to be part of the machine, you know?  Rejection of corporate values ‘n what not.  This time, it’s about the killing, but it’s really about the killing, man.

Mundanename presses his luck and asks again…

Will we learn more about the mechanics of magic in BLACK HALO?

Dreadaeleon will teach you more than you ever possibly wanted to know about it.

Jerome writes…

Loincloths?

Loincloths.

The Nevada Police Department writes…

You don’t really think you’re going to get away with it, do you, Sykes?

So, anyway, hope this piqued your curiosity or at least wasted your time!

Let’s all hold hands as we wait for the inevitable.