Cherie Priest's Blog: It's awards season, so here comes the shameless self-promotion, page 119

September 9, 2009

Here's today's progress on my modern pseudo-noir police procedural about a neighborhood full of mutated freaks, a sexy former court reporter, an aging cop who's being forced into retirement, and a multiple murder that took place thirty years ago in an all-night diner called "The Rathole."

Project: Fort Freak "Remember the Rathole"

New Words: 2228 (nice)

Present Total Word Count: 16,413 words

Goal: 30,000 words

Due date: October 15

Things accomplished in fiction: Passed the halfway point, yay! ...

Almost-mid-week miscellany

SciFiGuy reviews BONESHAKER. The review is generally friendly and thorough, and well-considered, and not at all spoilery — so go ahead and read it without fear. Also, read the comments. Kmont is a good guesser. And I greatly appreciate the advice that's given to Rhianna.

Up-close shot of the Arkham Asylum hair. Because today is my dad's birthday (happy birthday!) and he asked to see a close-up of the bruise-colored rainbow on my head. To answer the couple dozen people who've asked, I have...

I'm back!

And I've slept about 15 hours in the last four days, so this will be brief. But to sum up hastily, and with minimal complexity: DragonCon was a blur of old friends, new friends, panels, rum, corsetry, and the best kind of geeking out ever.

I took many phone pictures.

You can find them all by Clicking here and poking around in my Twitpics.

Mind you, most of the pictures aren't labeled. I got lit one night and by dumb, drunk luck figured out how to attach a subject line/descriptor to the photos ...

DragonCon Contacts, Connections, and General Info

So! It's that time of year again — and tomorrow morning at the very narrow ass-crack of dawn I'll be flying out for Atlanta.* But first, some announcements:

Although I won't be updating this page in my absence, you'll be able to find me here on Twitter. Expect pictures, tweets, ramblings, and lunacy.

As of this morning, I look a little different. I'm calling this my "Arkham Asylum" hair - and it comes courtesy of the amazing Judy Yoon at Salon Ciba on Capital Hill in Seattle. I ain't gonna lie

FTW!

How do I love Publishers Weekly? Let me count the ways:

Starred review [!!!OMG!!!!:] Boneshaker, Cherie Priest. Tor, $15.99 paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1841-1

Maternal love faces formidable challenges in this stellar steampunk tale. In an alternate 1880s America, mad inventor Leviticus Blue is blamed for destroying Civil War–era Seattle. When Zeke Wilkes, Blue's son, goes into the walled wreck of a city to clear his father's name, Zeke's mother, Briar Wilkes, follows him in an airship, determined

August 28, 2009

Here's today's progress on my modern pseudo-noir police procedural about a neighborhood full of mutated freaks, a sexy former court reporter, an aging cop who's being forced into retirement, and a multiple murder that took place thirty years ago in an all-night diner called "The Rathole."

Project: Fort Freak "Remember the Rathole" (tentative)

New Words: 1276 (not a lot, but I'm happy with it)

Present Total Word Count: 14,195 words

Goal: 30,000 words

Due date: October 15

Things accomplished in fic

AWESOME THINGS TODAY

Needly Needly Needly. Visited the Space Needle with Rosie and Caitlin, and was offered fish. Accepted fish. Held fish. Loved fish. Made silly faces.

Clockwork Century updated with artwork. To be more precise, you can click to go peek at some of Jon Foster's preliminary sketches, from back when he was chatting with Tor about what the cover art should look like.

New corset and bustle arrived in time for DCon. And I, for one, am tickled. I wish I had a better picture, though. Sorry. But it's w

August 23, 2009

TheClockworkCentury.com has been updated … with cast information/some character bios from Dreadnought. Click over there and scroll down to the bottom to get a sneak peak and a few hints about what you might find in that book, when it debuts next year.
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And here's the weekend's progress on my modern pseudo-noir police procedural about a neighborhood full of mutated freaks, a sexy former court reporter, an aging cop who's being forced into retirement, and a multiple murder that took plac

August 21, 2009

TOMORROW: Signing and release party for the Grants Pass anthology at Soul Food Books in Redmond, WA. I won't be there, I'm afraid. But Jay Lake and Shannon Page will be present, as well as Seanan McGuire and Jennifer Brozek.

You can order/preorder the anthology right here. My contribution to this collection is called "Hell's Bells," and it's about an autistic child who's abandoned at a hospital during an apocalyptic plague.

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Here's today's progress on my modern pseudo-noir police pro

August 19, 2009

Certified, pre-owned cats. Great ad campaign by a Michigan humane society, and the message is applicable absolutely anywhere. As for me, I have a genuine certified pre-owned Tennessee Random Cat. Still runs great. Has most of her original parts, sans a bit of intestine she lost to hair twistie removal surgery. Over the years her value has only increased.

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