If you’re on FB, I’ve taken the username of pamelafreeman.author - come and visit my page there, too!

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I’m busily proofreading the first pages of Full Circle for its September launch in Australia, but for those of you who can’t wait, I’ve put a new story set in the Domains on the Deep Water page. Otlee’s Story is set in Foreverfroze, the harbour/fishing town of the Far North Domain. I hope you like it!

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It’s been very exciting recently as the foreign editions of Blood Ties have been arriving. It’s fascinating to see the different covers for each market. Check them out at Editions of Blood Ties - there are now German, French and Spanish versions. I can’t wait to see the Portugese one!

It was interesting to note that only the French translators changed the names of my characters to the French equivalents. Bramble becomes ‘Ronce’, for example. While normally I hate it when translators change character names, I think it was a fair decision here because the fact that the characters are named after plants and animals is part of the culture.

Some foreign rights are still available - contact Australian Literary Management for details.

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I’m glad to announce that American film producer John Flavin has optioned the first book of the Castings Trilogy, Blood Ties. Any casting suggestions?

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I’m very happy to say that I have delivered the structural edit of Full Circle (Book 3) to my editor.  It’s been a big rewrite and rather hair-raising, so I feel very free and light at the moment, especially since I’ve just launched a new children’s book, Victor’s Challenge, a sequel to Victor’s Quest (Walker Books).  They will also be out in the UK very soon.

Blood Ties, under the title Die Prophezeiung der Steine (Goldmann Fantasy) is now released in Germany, and the book looks wonderful.  The series title there is Das Land der Seher, which means The Land of the Seer - a fabulous series title and one I wish I’d thought of first!

I am also happy to say that the first two books are available (in English) in India now, and no doubt other places in the sub-continent.

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In no particular order:  2010 will see the publication of a stand-alone book set in the Castings Universe, called “Ember and Ash”.  No, it’s not the fourth book in the trilogy, it really is stand alone, and the Ash of the title does not refer to the trilogy character Ash.  I’m excited about it because I get to explore some more layers of the universe in a completely different way to the trilogy.  Different approach to narrative, different issues, same universe.  Fun!

I have completed the first draft of the third book, Full Circle, and am nervously awaiting editor’s comments.

This morning I read the first known piece of fan fic set in the Castings Universe.  While I have to officially say that I am protecting my copyright and asserting my intellectual rights, I am chuffed.  I’ve always wanted to be fanficed.  It was pretty good, too!

For those interested:  the official position is that copyright of all material, characters, etc, published under my name remains my property.  If people acknowledge my ownership, however, as this piece does, I am happy for them to explore aspects of my worlds and share them with others, as long as readers are not asked to pay.  If you want to fanfic Castings and you have questions, please email me (click on Contact Pamela).

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Go check out the new Bookgeeks author panel on technology and magic in speculative fiction, with Stephen Baxter, Patrick Rothfuss, Sean Williams and me:  http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/2008/12/03/the-second-bookgeeks-sf-and-fantasy-author-panel-science-and-magic  I was fascinated by the other authors’ comments.

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Simon Appleby, over at Bookgeeks, has read Blood Ties and reviewed it favourably.

Pamela Freeman’s fantasy debut, Book One of the Castings Trilogy, has lots of great ideas and interesting themes, and was a very enjoyable holiday read.

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Thank you Simon.  Keep an eye out for the upcoming panel on Bookgeeks:  Stephen Baxter, Patrick Rothfuss, Sean Williams and I discuss creating believable science and magic in speculative fiction.  It was a fascinating exercise for me and makes great reading.

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Iain Wear has reviewed Deep Water over at The Bookbag.

He has some reservations which is fair enough but gives it four stars so thank you, Iain.

My favourite part was
"Quite a way before the end of Deep Water, I knew I have to see how things turn out when it all comes together."

Way to go! I’ve finished the first draft of the final book (Full Circle) and it will be the bookshops in September 2009.

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A thank you to Stuart Mayne for his aurealisXpress review of Deep Water, reproduced here with his permission:

I’m a fan of Pamela Freeman’s fantasy series, The Castings Trilogy. I’m sick of epic fantasy that deals with kings and the powerful and The Castings Trilogy gives me exactly what I want: ordinary people thrust into circumstances that are bewildering and unsettling. It is in these circumstances that we all change and it is reassuring that there are writers such as Pamela out there who want to write about the ordinary lives that are extraordinary.

The second book begins directly where the first ends, and I struggled for a time to remember what had befallen Ash, Martine and Bramble in Blood Ties. But Freeman deftly inserts any back-story explanations that are needed.

The middle novel in a trilogy can sometimes fail from lack of dramatic impetus. It can take on the aspect of the middle half of a standalone novel, developing character and plot without thought for the reader. Freeman shows her mastery of her craft by giving the reader a fully developed standalone story inside the wider work. The reader is given their fill of dramatic story and left panting, watching the author’s website (castingstrilogy.com) expectantly for the Full Circle to be completed.

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