[hr][/hr]So come along, join in the party and help us celebrate the release of the next eagerly-awaited Obernewtyn Chronicles book!
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The Stone Key publication date: 4th February 2008
From this thread, posted Friday night by Isobelle:
You can read the rest of the post by Isobelle here. Thank you so much Isobelle, for confirming for us. I think I speak for everyone when I say that an extra 3 months is nothing! Sneak Previews Why not head over to Penguin's Obernewtyn.com.au to watch readings of extracts from The Stone Key by Isobelle herself, from the Convergence Festival in Melbourne in June '07. View Isobelle's reading's here. You'll be taken to the Penguin site to view them. ALSO! You can now download a Sneak Peak of Chapter One of The Stone Key! Edit: For those of you who can't view the .wmv (for whatever reason), we've transcribed the readings for you: Click here to read transcripts of the readings All credits to Isobelle, and to Penguin for providing the original recording, of course ;)Dear all of you, This change in release date is true and is not Penguin's fault. It is the fault of the author. Penguin does have the manuscript, as Min says, but that was the final draft before I began to work with an editor, and it went in late. This is the second edit with the editor (instead of my own), and the book is so long and complex and so much had to be checked and the writing polished that it has taken a few weeks longer to finish than I anticipated. I have worked so hard to meet the deadline, and yet in the end there was just not quite enough time. It seems so unfair that a couple of weeks delay should mean such a long publishing delay, but the fact is that I have missed my place in the publishing schedule...
Isobelle Carmody