Cherie Priest's Blog: It's awards season, so here comes the shameless self-promotion, page 108
February 9, 2010
Technically
As of right now, my little brother is 21 years old.* I wish oodles of happy natal felicitations to the lad — who can be found right here online. May he have many, many more gleeful, productive years ahead! And even though the occasion veritably cries out for me to tell embarrassing stories about him as a wee nublet of a boy, I will do no such thing.
At this time.
* He's … um … rather significantly younger than me, yes.
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February 8, 2010
WHO DAT???
WHO DAT SAY DEY GONNA BEAT DEM SAINTS????
[:: shakes it ::]
[:: shakes it ::]
[:: eats a celebratory Krispy Kreme doughnut ::]
[:: shakes sticky fingers ::]
[:: shakes booty some more ::]
[:: collapses ::]
[:: shakes it down there on the ground ::]
[:: shakes over to the cat who wonders WTF is going on ::]
[:: shakes the cat ::]
[:: shakes booty to the medicine cabinet for band-aids ::]
[:: shakes the band-aid box ::]
[:: bootyshakes ::]
[:: bootyshakes ::]
[:: and I say WHO DAT? ::]
...
February 7, 2010
Links and Updates
Boneshaker is back on Amazon.com - thereby indicating that Macmillan and Amazon have reached some kind of detente, I must assume. This is particularly good for Kindle users, who can't just order books from somebody else. Three such people emailed during the blackout, demanding to know why they couldn't get my stuff for their Kindle because they were preeeetty sure they saw it available a couple of weeks ago and WTF was up with that? Yeah. Well. Here you go.
February 6, 2010
February 5, 2010
Here are the recent stats on the Clockwork Century story, "Far-Fetched" — about an apprentice airship engineer named Huojin and his adventures aboard the Naamah Darling, now with Bonus! mayhem in the Shanghai Tunnels of Portland:
Project: "Far-Fetched"
Deadline: February 20, 2010
New Words Written: 2359 (not bad)
Present Total Word Count: 8449
Things Accomplished in Fiction: Finished Draft Zero. It's a little long, and will probably get cut by about a thousand words; and I'm not 100% sold on my...
February 4, 2010
February 3, 2010
Lest you folks think I've completely forgotten about this project — Here are the recent stats on the Clockwork Century story, "Far-Fetched" — about an apprentice airship engineer named Huojin and his adventures aboard the Naamah Darling, now with Bonus! mayhem in the Shanghai Tunnels of Portland:
Project: "Far-Fetched"
Deadline: February 20, 2010
New Words Written: 3184 (in a week - terrible)
Present Total Word Count: 6090
Things Accomplished in Fiction: Wrote my way to the climax; quit composing ...
January 3, 2010
Lest you folks think I've completely forgotten about this project — Here are the recent stats on the Clockwork Century story, "Far-Fetched" — about an apprentice airship engineer named Huojin and his adventures aboard the Naamah Darling, now with Bonus! mayhem in the Shanghai Tunnels of Portland:
Project: "Far-Fetched"
Deadline: February 20, 2010
New Words Written: 3184 (in a week - terrible)
Present Total Word Count: 6090
Things Accomplished in Fiction: Wrote my way to the climax; quit composing ...
February 3, 2010
By popular demand
In the wake of an ecstatic tweet regarding my suppertime selection, I've been commanded to blog the "recipe." I use fingerquotes around the word "recipe" because I did in fact yank it from a Betty Crocker book*, but I sort of streamlined it and customized it a little. So at this point, it's not much of a recipe. It's more like a short paragraph:
Get yourself a casserole dish and fill it with layers of torn-up corn tortillas and chili beans, then douse it with enchilada sauce, smother it...
February 2, 2010
A busy morning with much to recommend it
I awoke this morning to a bit of an email bombardment, due in no small part to some combined forces on Twitter - but it was all good. First of all, I was alerted that John Scalzi is at it again; and by "it" I mean "being very smart, compassionate, and helpful when it comes to his fellow writers." Thanks tremendously, John - and thanks also to Warren, who plugged my name into the alert as someone you, the readers, can reasonably support by following John's suggestions and advice.
Next up - I l...
Adventures of Links
BookBanter inteview - Right here, and live for your listening pleasure. We talk books, steampunk, and all kinds of fun stuff.
Snowmageddon - I am not allowed to waste any more time on this game about zombie snowmen. NOT ALLOWED.
Scalzi breaks it down - Behold ye, the words of a wise man regarding why Amazon's handling of its issue with Macmillan was, shall we say, "Counterproductive."
Scott Westerfeld has another take on the situation - Detailing quite nicely how, I think, many of us writers...
February 1, 2010
Bon voyage!
Our friend Denny crashed with us last night. He was only passing through; so alas, we didn't have much time for shenanigans. But at least we made it to the Needle!
Bye sweetie! Have a happy birthday tomorrow, and a marvelous remainder of your vacation.
[Crossposted to/from my website. If you'd like to comment, you can do so either here or there.]
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