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Back to our long, slow recapping of the October Daye series, in light of its second Hugo nomination for Best Series: when we sold Toby to DAW, it was with three books already finished, and a fourth book I had been struggling to finish for years.
LATE ECLIPSES was titled LATE ECLIPSES OF THE SUN AND MOON for a very long time, and then THESE LATE ECLIPSES. Somehow, "these" got dropped during the editorial process, making it the only Toby book with a two-word title.
Because I was living in a cycle of writing and rewriting books one-three, the changes every revision made were cascading into the rest of the series, and LATE ECLIPSES was among the hardest hit. I couldn't finish it until the first three locked for good.
LATE ECLIPSES is the book where I realized I had been wrong about who Toby's long-term love interest was going to be. Whoops. (These books are urban fantasy, not paranormal romance, because I am not good at writing romance. It's not my gig.)
(Sometimes people say they don't read Toby because they don't like supernatural romances. If my books contain too much romance for them, I wonder how they're able to read anything, ever. Romance is an ingredient as well as a genre, and it's everywhere.)
LATE ECLIPSES shook up the status quo I had defined in the first three books in a big, big way, removing characters who had been there since the beginning and introducing Walther, who would come to be more and more important as time went on.
LATE ECLIPSES was originally published by @dawbooks, and is available from bookstores and import stores everywhere. Signed copies are currently available from @borderlands_sf.
