Kieran Mulvaney

Finally. Three weeks late - but 15,000 words longer - I have submitted the draft manuscript for my polar bear book. Publication date: Fall 2010. Greater specificity to follow. Now, I must sleep.

My book deadline is one week from today. Last night I went to bed feeling moderately certain that I would at least be OK on quantity, if not the quality - I reckoned I could deliver the entire manuscript, but I wasn't confident that the most recently and hurriedly written chapters would be of sufficient quality. (more…)

This time last year, I was in the middle of a two-day train journey from Winnipeg to Churchill, as part of my great polar bear adventure. It's amazing how rapidly time flies. Alas, I couldn't get it together to return to Churchill this year, but I have every intention of doing so in 2010. By then, all being well, my book will be published; my deadline is November 9, so I'd better get back to it.

Where have I been? What have I been doing? Maintaining my other blog, over at Discovery Channel's Earth Pub, for one thing. (more…)

I'm hoping we have a title for my upcoming polar bear book. The working title had been Ice Bear but the marketing folks wanted something more lyrical, so my editor came up with The Ice Wanderer: A Natural and Unnatural History of Polar Bears. I love it; I think it conveys everything I want to convey. We'll see now whether it gets the final green light. (more…)