by Paulette Jaxton

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As you may have noticed the blog has been moved to my website and PauletteJaxton.com has gotten a face lift. I hope you all like the new face, please feel free to let me know what you think. There are more changes in the works, such as an uber-feed that will let you get episodes from all my podcast from one place, and I’ll be announcing those here as they become available.

In other exciting news EmpressSword.com has also undergone a face lift and is almost ready for the podcast start date on January 15th, 2010. Please go over and have a look. I’ll be primping and preening the site with all sorts of fun things between now and the launch, so come back often to see what I’ve been up to.

And speaking of The Empress Sword launch date, I’ve just arranged to do a reading from the book at Zü Coffee in Annapolis, Maryland on the night of the launch. I’ll be joined by Brand Gamblin who will read from his podiobook Tumbler. It all starts at 6:30 PM on January 15th, 2010 and I wouldn’t be surprised if a pub-crawl somehow followed.

Now, what was I saying about not taking so long between posts? Oh yes, that I was making no promises. Sorry it’s been another month and a half, but there really hasn’t been much to report on. Like everyone else, it seems, I’ve been having my share of the sniffles and day jobs demands. Enough so that not much has been happening on the writing or podcasting fronts. I’m still gearing up for The Empress Sword Podcast to drop in January.
 
The website is up and I’m getting it ready bit by bit. I’m still getting audio from the actors and they are doing some wonderful work. I’m sure you will all be as excited as I am to hear the podcast version of the story. The podiobook version is edited and will drop at the same time in it’s entirety.
 
I’m still working on moving this blog over to PauletteJaxton.com and launch a revamped website there. You can probably look for that sometime in January as well.
 
Responses from the agents I queried have been filtering back. Only one agent, so far, has asked to look at more of the book. Ultimately she decided not to make an offer, but she did give me some useful criticism that I appreciate very much. This is a long drawn out process and it’s not over yet. After all, This is only the first round!
 
Hopefully I’ll be posting again soon, but just in case I don’t get something else up before the end of the year please have a wonderful holiday season. Be safe, be well and be happy!