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January 4, 2010

Four days into the New Year, and so far, so good. I'm smack in the middle of a killer editorial deadline for Fort Freak, so I'm eyeballs-deep in THAT*; but I've stuck to my resolution to write some fiction every day, even if it's only a few hundred words. At the moment, I'm writing on Hellbent, sequel to Bloodshot. It's not due for awhile, but it's nice to have a jump on it — and besides, I'm not quite ready to dedicate myself to a wholly new project yet (even in pitch or proposal...

January 4, 2009

Four days into the New Year, and so far, so good. I'm smack in the middle of a killer editorial deadline for Fort Freak, so I'm eyeballs-deep in THAT*; but I've stuck to my resolution to write some fiction every day, even if it's only a few hundred words. At the moment, I'm writing on Hellbent, sequel to Bloodshot. It's not due for awhile, but it's nice to have a jump on it — and besides, I'm not quite ready to dedicate myself to a wholly new project yet (even in pitch or proposal...

The important things

Spain the Cat went to the vet today, not out of any terror for her life or anything, but because she'd been acting very uncomfortable and scratchy ever since I got back from Kentucky. I caught her chewing at a couple of skin-tag-thingies (which we already knew about), and they seemed to have grown; so off to ye old doc's office she went as a precautionary measure.

I tweeted about this, and people had questions, so here's the rundown. For starters, she has fleas. And for finishers, her...

2010 To-Do List

Presented here for personal reference, and the sake of motivation. Plenty was set into motion in 2009 — Dreadnought, (part of) Clementine, Bloodshot, and my contribution to Fort Freak were all written and are now in editorial process — but there's lots I'd like to see get underway in 2010. So here's my tally of the definite stuff, and the stuff that definitely needs to happen next year.

Definitely happening:

Fathom released in mass market (February 2010)
Clementine released (May 2010)

Forget the Epic

In 2010 (which is pronounced "twenty-ten" in my head), heaven only knows what will become of us. The older I get, the more strongly I feel that I have precious little control over much of anything; but the things that are within my authority, I will do my best to manage.

Mind you, I don't smoke, don't drink to any prohibitive excess, and I'm not interested in losing weight (though I'm a little out of shape). I already keep my home tidy as a matter of personal routine. My credit cards are...

the tail end of something ten years long

Ten years ago I was in the middle of a grad program in rhetoric theory, wondering when the hell I would finish reading all this crap and start publishing some crap of my own. At the same time, I was working three jobs — assistant director of a school aged child care program for a Title Eight school in East Ridge, Tennessee, graduate assistant to the rhetoric department head, and teacher of two sections of second-level writing at UTC — and living in a townhouse with a couple of roommates. I ...

The Boneshaker Channel lives again

Deeds and Words - A lovely, thoughtful, in-depth yet not truly spoilery review of Boneshaker can be found at this fine blogging location. The intro quote (via Milton) startled me into a LOL with its sneaky appropriateness.

Fantasy Magazine - Likewise weighs in vis-a-vis this book, and very kindly.

Adventures in Reading - See also: Fantasy Magazine's reviewer (the inimitable Joe Sherry) sticks Boneshaker on his list of 2009's best. Thanks a million, Joe!

[Crossposted to/from my website. If...

Home again, home again

So I'm back in Seattle, and I've been taking today to regroup. It was sort of a tactic of last resort; I was so wiped out from the cross-country travel and I came home to … to … so much stuff, that I hardly knew where to begin. So I didn't begin anything. I just took a day to take down all the Christmas paraphernalia, unpack all my stuff, catch up on all my mail, do some grocery shopping, clean the apartment, charge all my electronics, pay some bills, water some plants, and the like. And...

Happy Holidays!

All right everybody — I'm about to go quasi-radio-silent for a bit. Tomorrow at the butt-crack of dawn I'll be leaving for Kentucky, to spend Christmas with my dad (et. al.); so although I'll have internet access once I get there, you may reasonably expect that my internet appearances will be intermittent at best.

Of course, I'll probably Tweet.

Because it's easy, and I'm lazy (and busy).

Anyway, have excellent and happy holidays — everybody, everywhere. Best wishes, good luck, and a...

Real quick, why today is a day of squee

So … this morning I awoke to learn that the Czech company Triton is picking up rights on Boneshaker. This means I've made my first foreign rights sale! Ever! Folks, that means I have leveled up as an author. It also means that someday, people in the Czech Republic will be reading Boneshaker and that just tickles me pink :)

* No, I don't know what they'll call it; no, I don't know if they'll keep the cover art; no, I don't know if they'll keep the brown text; no, I don't know when it'll be...