So, by the time you read this, Black Halo, the second book in the Aeons’ Gate trilogy, will be out on Kindle, after far too many months of existing in that bleak, horrifying electric limbo where the Virtual Boy and Mavis Beacon have gone to die. Mind that you don’t keep that information too close to your heart. If you happen to say Mavis Beacon’s name three times, she comes out of your computer screen and carves typography lectures into your flesh with a nail file.
If you’re reading this a week later than the day it’s been published, or if you are a time traveler (and if you are, you should shoot me your personal contact info. Me and the rest of the H.M.T.T. are getting together to assassinate Hitler next week), it will also be out on Nook.
…that’s pretty much all I wanted to say, but it feels like there should be more. The eBook, after all, is distinctly and unpleasantly late in coming. It physically wounded me to have to say “soonish,” when people asked me where it was, and not just because they frequently beat me with their Kindles afterward. I know my editor, Lou Anders, and I actually got drunk on occasion and decided to go down there and give them a piece of our minds. But then we realized we were in Georgia and that was going to take a long time to get there, so we just hassled a guy dressed like an ewok.
…that guy was a real ass, though. He had it coming.
Regardless, there’s not a lot I can say. Circumstances conspired unduly and left no one involved in the production of it happy about when it came out. It feels as though I should apologize for it taking so long, but I can’t see that accomplishing much. It certainly was no matter of sloth, neglect or malice that made it out so late. Certainly, both my editor and I wanted it to come out much, much earlier than it did.
All I can really say is that I really hope you’ve enjoyed it. If you’ve been waiting for it to come out on eBook, I’m glad it’s there for you. If you were rightfully impatient and bought the paperback, then I’m forever in love with you. Let’s run away and live on a desert island and harvest monkeys for the rest of our days, it’ll be just you, me and Mavis Beacon.
…wait. Did I just say her name two times or thr