Sanctuary Unbound is DONE. So…what’s next?

Three cheers! Sanctuary Unbound is finalized, awaiting only the final draft of the cover. (I’ve seen the first draft, and it’s gonna be sexy! This may be my favorite cover of the series, though gosh knows it’s hard to out-do Cry Sanctuary!)

Finalized means we did our revisions, a few rounds of edits with Anne Scott, editor extraordinaire, and then went through line edits and cleaned up anything else that we might have messed up while addressing line edits.  Then we pick excerpts…our excerpts for the Samhain website are usually some bit from the first chapter and have to be PG-13, which means Anne almost always sends me something and asks me to remove all variations of fuck or shit.  I think the Crossroads excerpt had 9 of them.  This time, only 1!

It’s a lengthy process, and by the time we’re through it we never want to see the book again…luckily that usually fades before release day rolls around. (June 1st! Ack!)

This is the end of the current Red Rock Pass storyline, though it’s not necessarily the end of the series.  These four books were all one pretty tightly knit arc from start to finish.  We have a few more ideas we’d maybe like to write later on, but they’d probably be set a year or two after the 4th book and might center around slightly different characters, though plenty of familiar faces will be around.

Not right away though.  We’re scheduled straight out to 2011 already!  Here’s a peek of what Samhain releases we have coming up:

• April 6th: Sanctuary. This is a print volume of Cry Sanctuary and Sanctuary Lost.
• June 1st: Sanctuary Unbound. (Digital) Red Rock Pass #4, which ties up the events of the first three books and features Adam Dubois, vampire lumberjack, and Cindy Shepherd, Red Rock’s tough werewolf doctor with a troubled past.
• July 13th: A Safe Harbor. (Digital) Building Sanctuary #1! This book ties in closely with Sanctuary Unbound and also features Adam in a minor role, as well as a much younger Gavin.  Set in 1933, it follows the heroine, Joan Fuller, as she fights against the growing corruption in the werewolf packs with the help of a gang of werewolf former-bootleggers led by Seamus Whelan.
• October 12th: Undertow. (Digital) Building Sanctuary #2. The second novella in this loosely connected series.  These stories are a bit different than our Red Rock series, focusing on the more mundane struggles of werewolves trying to build a sanctuary hidden away from the human world on an island off the coast of Maine.
• November 2nd: Crossroads. (Print) Southern Arcana #2. Crossroads will be out in print on November 2nd, and it’s already available to pre-order on Amazon! Of course, it’s already available now as an ebook pretty much anywhere you want to look.
• January 2011: Deadlock. (Digital) Southern Arcana #3. Alec, that crazy bastard rogue alpha, is the hero of Deadlock.  The heroine is Carmen Mendoza, psychic half-blood daughter of a prominent political shapeshifter family.  Expect violence, magic, explosions and some very dirty sex.
• April 2011: Sanctuary Redeemed. (Print)  This is the second Red Rock Pass print volume, containing Sanctuary’s Price and Sanctuary Unbound.
• August 2011: Though we’re still finalizing a title, the first two Building Sanctuary novellas should be available as a print volume!
• November 2011: Deadlock. (Print)  If all goes according to tentative schedule, Deadlock will be available in print in November of 2011!  This far out, though, dates are always subject to tweaks. 

So, that’s an awful lot on our upcoming schedule!  And we haven’t started scheduling digital releases for 2011 yet beyond Deadlock, though there are plenty more ideas we have.

Phew.  Actually, just looking at that, I think I need to go take a nap.  (If only I had time to!)