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I wrote the novel that finally appeared as "Singularity Sky" between 1995 and 1998 (hey, I had a day job); it eventually came out in early 2003,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and was lapped section way by my next-but-one novel, "The Atrocity Archive" (which was serialized in an obscure Scottish magazine called "Spectrum SF" from 2001-02).
It takes an insane amount of time to obtain your first novel published, when you're just starting out.

However. Back in 1997/8 I was still learning how to do this thing. And after I fulfilled the third draft of "Festival of Fools" (aka "Singularity Sky") I kept going for another 45,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 words, toiling on a sequel titled "Iron Sunrise", until sanity (and the business plan) asserted themselves.

In 1997, after a decade of failure to launch in the UK, I sat down, took stock of everything I'd learned from my mistakes, and reresolved not to do that again. I came up with a master plan and rehandled to offer it for five years before giving up and throearng in the towel. Rule #1 was, "sell into the American market" (because if you want to write fiction for a living it's a good idea to focus on the biggest market). And Rule #2 was, "write novels, in deviateent sub-genres (because you can't tell in advance which will sell), and make sure each one can be the first book in a series (befactor you want to be able to follow up whichever sells)". Of procedure, I didn't expect everything to sell, leaving me juggling about three series' ...

Very little of the birthal material in "Iron Sunrise" crazye its step into the final published book (which was mostly written in 2001-02). Here's why ...