{"id":137,"date":"2016-04-27T00:10:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T05:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2016-04-27T00:10:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T05:10:24","slug":"the-new-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/27\/the-new-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The New New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new book is Cold Welcome<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 The new new book is the book after that, which presently is undergoing some restructuring…since its beginning is now the end of Cold Welcome.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve been doing some analytical thinking about it, because it should have a series of reveals, like the opening of a rose,\u00a0 and it would not do to have the stamens on the outside and the center of the rose nothing but five petals meeting in the middle of nothing.<\/p>\n

Families have histories…and then families have legends.\u00a0 Some of the legends are historically accurate and some are not.\u00a0 Memories get tangled.\u00a0\u00a0 The understanding of why someone did something is particularly likely to be morphed by the family legend, for better or for worse but certainly not for accuracy.\u00a0\u00a0 So consider the Vatta family.\u00a0 Where did they come from?<\/p>\n

Those who have read the short story “Say Cheese” will know that the family may not always have been perfectly respectable, though they have been rich and respectable for some generations now.\u00a0 At least most of them.\u00a0\u00a0 Though every family also has some thistles in the wheat, and the original Vatta’s War books made it clear that Osman Vatta–perhaps Ky’s father’s age or a little older–was one such.\u00a0\u00a0 In Cold Welcome, there’s a little more about the Vattas, including when they arrived on Slotter Key.\u00a0 The new new book will reveal yet more about the Vatta family’s origin…and the consequences of some early decisions.<\/p>\n

How much does someone need to know about their ancestry in order to understand themselves?\u00a0\u00a0 Nobody knows for sure.\u00a0\u00a0 Some people know nothing, and shrug it off.\u00a0 Others are intensely interested and frustrated by what they don’t know.\u00a0 But if something someone did generations back means that you’re being hunted, generations later…?\u00a0 That’s different.\u00a0 Or is it?<\/p>\n

Within the story, the two cousins, Ky and Stella, grew up in apparently intact families.\u00a0 Ky was never very interested in her forebears; Stella was only moderately so (because the explanation was that she looked like her mother’s family, she was interested in them; Ky, who looked more like her father, paid less attention to her mother’s family.)\u00a0\u00a0 But now Stella, knowing her true parentage (or half of it) has become very interested in what she might have inherited from her birth father.\u00a0 And Ky?\u00a0\u00a0 Still not interested.\u00a0 Yet.<\/p>\n

Grace Lane Vatta,\u00a0 on the other hand, may know more than she wants to about her ancestry.\u00a0 Will that be a factor in what’s coming?\u00a0 Or just her own actions, not her parentage?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not there yet.\u00a0\u00a0 The charts are growing, the interlacement of relationships is getting more complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new book is Cold Welcome.\u00a0\u00a0 The new new book is the book after that, which presently is undergoing some restructuring…since its beginning is now the end of Cold Welcome.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve been doing some analytical thinking about it, because it should have a series of reveals, like the opening of a rose,\u00a0 and it would Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-the-writing-life","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}