If nothing goes wrong, AGRICULTURAL DAZE will be appearing early next year. This was after discussion with the publisher during the Australian national SF Convention (Continuum 8) which I attended, and the book was agreed for early 2013. The DAZE series has always been huge fun to write and it certainly has hung in there. The original, Farming Daze, was my first published book and appeared in 1993. It continues to sell, as have its five successors. Not in best seller numbers, but in a steady trickle that rarely varies from year to year but does mount up. I guess animals and humour don’t date much. So next week I sit down to start collating the material for this new one, and discussing its possible cover with the excellent local artist (Judy Giddens) who’s done the last several DAZE covers. The nice thing about the timing will be that I should have copies in time to bring them to Au Contraire II, the NZ SF Natcon in mid-2013 which I am booked to attend.
