Hello all!

How are the pangs of torment going? Last newsletter I told you that there would be some exciting news for GGK fans in the next newsletter. Since then I have been assailed with pleas for mercy from people whose fingers are becoming worn out from the drumming on the desk top they're enduring whilst waiting for the newsletter to appear in their inbox. So I've decided to vote for clemency, and send out a newsletter early, without all the usual updates and forums analysis, to give you a special edition with the news I promised. And without further ado (drumroll, nervously bated breath) it is this:

This is, of course, NOT the novel that GGK is currently working on, which is still progressing, but something separate; a collection of some of the poetry GGK has written over the past twenty years. GGK's first published work, recognition, and awards, came in this form, and he has continued to write poetry even as the novels have appeared. Many of the works are legend-based, evoking the Greeks, Celts, early vegetation myth cycles, Arthuriana, some of them spinning original legends. There are love poems, elegies, some romantic pieces, others cutting against or across the 'romantic' ideal.

Publishing outside Canada is still being sorted through, but the book will be available to BW denizens (signed) through the good offices of Book City in Toronto - as I explained on the site here: http://www.brightweavings.com/buyingbooks.htm. I'll have the gorgeous Cathy MacLean-designed cover up on the website as soon as I can.

So people - we're almost certain to have two books published within a year of each other! Now that is cause for celebration, as I'm sure you'll agree.

Until next time,

Deborah