estara | Sep. 16th, 2008

I've already mentioned how incredible it is to have discussion in comments with your favourite authors, complimenting them on their work or being complimented by them on an auction offer, but today takes the cake.

I bought Chronicles of the Kencyrath as an au-pair in '88 or '89 in Bournemouth and fell in love with epic fantasy and a female heroine (quite rare those days) who wasn't written for young adults. I heard of other books in the series being published by a small publisher called Hypatia Press which I could never get online and couldn't find in 1997 looking in a Santa Monica sf book store (during my trip to the US my dad only let me enter that one bookstore... well I was in there an a hour anyway).

I was so happy to find out that the books had been republished by Meisha Merlin, where I had already gotten the Liaden Universe books. And then that publisher shut down, too.

With the internet I occasionally searched for info on the author, P.C. Hodgell, and was happy to find this year that she had gotten herself a website and eventually a livejournal. I've been commenting on livejournal since I was introduced to it in 2000 by other Aislings.

So I read that Baen, who already offer ebooks of the series, will republish the Kencyrath books in hardcover from next year on and have bought at least one new novel in the series.

And Pat Hodgell is looking for proof readers of the new hardcover omnibus. And I offer my help and she takes me up on it.

And I get to proofread Chapter 11, one of the most dramatic, in Dark of the Moon. Today.

I just sent the files back.

I feel like I'm part of Jame's world now.

I love the internet <3 <3 <3.

~ originally posted at bookish.net