Cherie Priest's Blog: It's awards season, so here comes the shameless self-promotion, page 103

April 7, 2010

I won't bore you by cataloging how many 12-hour work days I've managed in the last 2 weeks, but I will bore you with the following — Bloodshot is now a 110,000-word manuscript. I removed about 7,000 words and wrote about 23,000 new ones to create that final count.

Tomorrow and the next day I need to make sure that my rewrites actually work, and that means combing through the whole thing one last time with my editor's notes in hand (they're in hard-copy form, so I'll do them side-by-side with ...

April 5, 2010

Tonight I went out to the University Book Store and caught an epic panel/signing that featured Mark Henry, , Jaye Wells, and Cory Doctorow. It was much fun and a marvelous time, but I didn't go out with the crew afterward. Too much work to do! Instead, I was a loser. I gave Keffy a ride home and then came home as well, so that I could get back to work for a couple of hours before bedtime. Alas.

The glamorous life!

Or something.

Anyway, everyone was awesome, and it was great to...

April 4, 2010

Today this was announced.

Boneshaker has been nominated for a Hugo Award. And I honestly have no idea what to say.

So I'll just post this, and then resume running around my apartment in utter hysterics: Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who voted to nominate me. I am honored, shocked, amazed, befuddled, overjoyed, thrilled, and humbled to be counted among the nominees; and congratulations to everyone else who made the list. It is a privilege and a delight to be included in such...

April 2, 2010

Just a real quick drive-by update, because I seriously MUST get some work done over here before heading out for the Weird Tales event at Norwescon tonight … but I wanted to make sure I put this out there before I forgot.

In short, tomorrow I'll be appearing at the Timberland Library [313 8th Ave SE; Olympia, WA 98501:]. Starting about 5:30 p.m., I'll be hanging out and reading, signing, answering questions — all that jazz. I understand there will also be a local bookseller present in case...

Not an April Fool's post.

People have been asking me about Norwescon (since it starts, I think, technically … today?) — so here's the scoop: I'm not a guest, and I'm not staying at the convention. I'm not participating in any way.

However, I will be hanging around tomorrow night. Euphemistically, you might say I'm attending BarCon. This is because I'll be in the bar.

I'll probably get there around suppertime, linger for a few hours … and then adjourn to the restaurant/bar on the top floor of the DoubleTree. ...

March 30, 2010

Here's today's progress on the new steam-horror fin de siecle project about ghosts, guilt, elder gods, and monster-hunting in the aftermath of two gruesome murders:

Project: (tentative title) Maplecroft

Deadline: None

New words written: 729 (slow but steady wins the race. right?)

Present total word count: 5237 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Examined a peculiar specimen. Got a little gleefully gross.

Things accomplished in real life: Day-job work; morning run (21 minutes again); worked ...

March 29, 2010

Here's today's progress on the new steam-horror fin de siecle project about ghosts, guilt, elder gods, and monster-hunting in the aftermath of two gruesome murders:

Project: (tentative title) Maplecroft

Deadline: None

New words written: 878

Present total word count: 4508 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Started chapter two. Changed narrators, so was a little slow starting. Switching voices doesn't come easily to me; and it'll be another 10,000 words or so before I can slip back and forth ...

March 28, 2010

Here's today's progress on the new steam-horror fin de siecle project about ghosts, guilt, elder gods, and monster-hunting in the aftermath of two gruesome murders:

Project: (tentative title) Maplecroft

Deadline: None

New words written: 1110

Present total word count: 3630 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Finished the first chapter. Now I get to wrestle with which segment to put next. This will be a little tricky, as the narrative is spread over two primary POV characters plus a couple...

March 27, 2010

We're safe back home in Seattle. All is well, and the kitty is well (thanks to Ellen, Suezie, and Elaine); and the trip was a blast! Many thanks to everyone at OPB, at the Beaverton Powell's — and to everyone who organized, tuned in, or showed up for both. Bonus! thanks to David Levine and his wife, who were kind enough to give us a very helpful lift when we really needed one.

Would do a more formal recap but I'm just about worn out, and on the verge of calling it a night.

(Thanks again...

March 25, 2010

Just wanted to take a work-break and say thanks to the folks at Oregon Public Broadcasting for having me on their show Think Out Loud this morning. It was so much fun! I got to wear the big fat headphones and everything.*

And now, real quick, I just want to remind everyone that tomorrow night — March 26, at 7:00 p.m. — you can find me at Powell's (the Beaverton location), reading, signing, and answering any questions you see fit to fling my way. Please come out and see me!

* I've done radio...