New news is good news. A huge shot out to Sian and Laura for digging up some info on Immortal Beloved. If I'm not doing it, at least somebody is--and kind enough to email it to me (because, you know, email is so passé *sarcasm*).

Anyway, Laura, hooked me up with a link that has a pretty detailed summary about Immortal Beloved. The link is here, but the summary is this:

New name, new town, new life. Nastasya has done it too often to count. And there’s no end in sight. Nothing ever really ends . . . when you’re immortal. But this time is different: Nastasya knows that this new town must hold her salvation-or her death. It’s time to turn towards the light, but it’s not going to be easy after centuries of feeding from the lives of the innocents around her, of living with little care for others. With the help of a willing teacher and two other students who may be friends or may be foes, Nastasya struggles to overcome her nature and forge her own legacy and a destiny that leaves darkness behind forever.

This is a gritty urban fantasy series for teens from the author of the SWEEP and BALEFIRE series.

Not a thing. Didn't King James I say something like No news is better than evil news? Hey, I agree with him, especially since I have NO news to give you. That's great, right?

The re-released issues of Sweep books 7 & 8 are out. I think 9 & 10 come out in April/May. After that books 11 & 12 will be published about 1 1/2 to 2 months apart. Don't ask me why; maybe to drag the series out even longer.

I don't have any info on Immortal Beloved. I've been looking...somewhat. I haven't contacted Cate Tiernan since...since I don't know when. Probably fans know more than I do.

However, next month is probably a "big" month for Cate, non Cate Tiernan related, though. So I wish her luck. (Please don't ask.)

New stuff. Cate Tiernan's official site is now up (okay, it WAS up). Also, Immortal Beloved her new trilogy (or is it series now?--whatever) has found a published at Little Brown; congratulations Cate!

I have updated the release dates for the foreign Sweep editions. The French cover for book 7 has strayed away from the Italian cover (they used to be the same). Oddly, the French cover uses the original cover for the Italian edition of one of Margaret Mahy's books (forgot the exact title).

Anyway, happy new year!

Some stuff. I haven't posted anything because there really wasn't any news to post (besides the Sweep reprints, but I don't consider that major news), but I have a few things to say now.

The first thing I will talk is about Cate Tiernan's new possible project. I say "possible" because nothing has been signed nor has a publisher has been found. In film terms, let's say it's in pre-production.

Tiernan plans to write (or is writing) a trilogy she calls Immortal Beloved. Her agent is now shopping the proposal around for a publisher. I don't know how much I can say, but it does deal with immortality, magic, and redemption. It's not Sweep and it's not Balefire. I don't want to say anymore because things could change drastically.

Cate Tiernan has a new email address. Check the contact page. I'm bad; I've had it up for about 3 weeks without an announcement. Bad me.

(On the contact page I mention that Cate Tiernan has her own website. Yeah, that's true, but it's not up. She doesn't know when it will be up.)

The Book Covery Gallery for Sweep has been updated. Guess what I found? Covers from Russia/Ukraine! Heh, heh. They were supposedly published in 2004. But hey...Cate Tiernan's name was translated into their language, sort of impossible for me to know. Plus, nobody told me. Oh well!

I think I have more to say, but I forgot.

It actually exists. Here is an article from Publisher's Weekly that talks about the Sweep reissues. It basically says what I (and the rest) already guessed. But above all the books are still in print, and that's all that matters, right? I just hope that Balefire will be reissued or something soon; hate to see that series go out-of-print.

(And why is my scan (the original BOS cover) on their site? I mean, really.)