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Dear Pam--

  Oh, there's a Book Ten, yes.

Diana -

 

Good to hear!!  

 

Thank you <vbg>

 

Pam 

Dear Diana,

 

Now THAT is a handsome title (and I don't think I am biased by my own bees).

Very lyrical. A little sad too.

 

Always hard to leave the homestead.  But I sense there is a return, otherwise why bother with the bees...

Hey Rita,

 

Yeah, I did think of that.  But my point was, that even if they wait until April, or even June to release it like they did with MOHB, that's still only four years.  Almost an entire _year_ less than we had to wait for MOHB, give or take a few months. So don't cry.  That's still good. :)

 

Vicki 

Dear Vicki--

    Well, that's if everythig goes well/according to plan.  Which is not a prospect I'd give you more than even money on, but it's always _possible_... <g>

Dear Rita--

   Look, I'm just suggesting general estimates of what MIGHT happen--and most of y'all who've known me for a while are perfectly well aware that I'm never _right- in such estimates.<g>

     Why start worrying about why BEES surely won't come out on a specific date?  I'll tell you when I'm done.  (And if experience is any guide, the publisher and/or Amazon will have optimistically started setting up fantasy release dates for _months_ before I _am_ done...)

     But fwiw...while the week before Christmas is the biggest sales week in bookselling, the week _after_ Christmas is the second biggest--and has the advantage that all the major publishers have already thrown their big books into the fray in December.   Random House cleverly started releasing my books in that post-Christmas week with VOYAGER--which promptly hit the NYT list, as a result.  They kept that time-table (with very good results) for the next several books; I think ABOSAA may have been the first one they chose to risk at a different time of year.

    I honestly have No Idea what they might choose to do with BEES, but it might well depend on what the status of the TV show was at that point, more than anything else.

I knew it!!

 

<claps hands>

 

<swoon>

Counting the days, weeks, months, years <g>

Time is......well.....subjective.

Websters:

 

 

I am reminded of "Mothers Little Helper" by the Rolling Stones.

 

 

Uh, not really!!!

 

JaneE

Yay! Looking forward to it :)

So will that be a collection available worldwide?  We've had some different ones in Australia, like A Trail of Fire.

It took a bit of looking to get the editions of the Lord John novels that I wanted. 

Dear Diana,

We'll get it when we get, and we'll be d*mn happy too.  :)

Vicki

Dear Diana,

 

 Hence my antennas twitching at this lovely reference.  Never heard of this custom before. Something about those working girls, when you begin to keep them, you know with unequivocal certainty this place is your home.

Have one busy hive. A second hive is queenless at the moment because, alas!, they do take off on you. But I'm sure another swarm will come and adopt me. I'll be certain to keep them always in the loop...

 

As usual, I do wonder how you stumbled upon this gem? How this idea come about?