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March 24, 2010

Hey everyone! This afternoon, Aric and I will be hopping a train to Portland, where we'll be lurking until Saturday morning. Our purpose for this visit is twofold:
Think Out Loud: Northwest Passages — This marvelous Oregon Public Broadcasting show has invited me to appear on Thursday morning, starting at 9:00 a.m. It's my understanding that the program will be available for live-streaming if you're not withing radio-listening distance; and I think you can even call in and talk to us. Anyway...

March 23, 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: 683 (meh)

Present total word count: 2520 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Continued gettin' shit done. This first segment is told by a physician/neighbor of an unfortunate family; at the moment, he's relating events that happened two years previously …...

March 22, 2010

Editorial work has begun on Bloodshot, and it's going to eat my life for the next few weeks. Big rewrites await, and the time is short. But while I'm at it, I'm still giving myself that hour each day to fiddle with Maplecroft.

So here goes. Here's recent 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: 1057
Present total...

Healthcare Bill

I sometimes wonder what kind of innovation renaissance the USA would undergo if it really did pass proper universal coverage. Who would start her own business? What would your neighbors invent, patent, and produce? I thrill to imagine people with the liberty to start over, try something new, to make things — without the stifling terror of being left uncovered or uncoverable. I dream one day of dancing on these eggshells, like the rest of the industrialized world.

[Crossposted to/from my...

March 20, 2010

Despite the fact that I'm besieged by editorial deadlines, I've decided that I WILL make time — even if it's just an hour a day — to get a little bit of writing done. With that resolution firmly in place, I'm now going back to the project I scrapped the other day, coming at it from another angle. So far, I like this angle better. It's more … um … what I meant in the first place, for lack of a better way of putting it.

For the time being, I think I'm also going to reset this project to its...

Friday night wrap-up

As of late this afternoon — Dreadnought copyedits have finally been sent back to Tor, along with thanks/acknowledgments and other miscellany I should've written ages ago, but didn't. I'd like to take a weekend to celebrate and relax, but in all honesty, that's not going to happen. I have two more hearty deadlines pressing up against this one — including rewrites for Bloodshot, which are going to eat up my next few weeks.

And somewhere, in the wee slivers of time left over after Things Which W...

Amelie Update

Because people want to know: Amelie (my friend's cat with liver problems) is generally doing better. She's gaining weight and feeling more spritely, and her liver function is improving — but something is still wrong, because her bilirubin stats are going up. The doc suspects a gall bladder blockage, but an ultrasound on Saturday will give everyone a better idea of what's up.

All in all, could be worse; but definitely could be better. The little girlie is hanging in there, though. And...

Milestones

Now it can be shared: Audible's production of Boneshaker — read by none other than the superlative Wil Wheaton (Zeke's chapters) and the marvelous (Briar's material) — is now available for your downloading pleasure.

I. Am. SO PSYCHED about this. My first audiobook! EVAR! And WIL IS ONE OF THE READERS! Honestly, I just can't thank him enough for coming on board — for it was mega bonus super awesome of him to do so. His reading of Zeke is charming, nuanced, and just freaking...

March 17, 2010

Busy day over here from a work standpoint — I'm in the middle of a day-job project (which I hope to finish tomorrow), I have Dreadnought copyedits to sort through, I'm trying to wrap up two online interviews, and I've had oodles of writer-work business emails to sift. So it's kind of one thing after another. But I have news! Here goes:

Go book, go! Boneshaker has gone into a sixth printing! I continue to be elated and overjoyed by the progress of this crazy little book.

Glutton for...

March 15, 2010

Convention weekends are always a rollicking, exhausting good time. You can see some (very nice) Emerald City Comic Con shots from the Seattle PI here; and you can flip through my TwitPic pictures here. If you are so inclined.

You could also scroll back through my Twitter feed for more of a blow-by-blow, but you'll have to skip past this morning's discussion of East Coast steampunk vs. West Coast steampunk — and I do have to warn you, there were threats of a dance-off throw-down. Which I may o...