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August 17, 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: 2225 (pretty good)

Present Total Word Count: 6326 words

Goal: 30,000 words

Due date: October 15

Things accomplished in fiction: Finished Section

Taking a risk

EDIT: ALL OUT. Thanks so much to those of you who asked for samples! But I'm afraid I need to keep the rest for the upcoming convention season. HOWEVER. As some have asked, I do in fact have the two (very large, high-res) JPGs which make up the handbill — and I can email those to anyone who wants them.

Okay, folks. I've had so many people ask if they could have a few of these handbills that at this point, it'd be downright rude not to set some aside. So I went out and bought some envelopes that

August 13, 2009 - roundup and metrics

There will be Blood Cancer Research! My friend Miriam is running to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, for her grandmother and uncle — both of whom died of blood cancer. She's good peeps, I know it for a fact. Go check out that link (with info on why she's running, and how it works); and then, if you like, feel free to check out her OMG I'm going to run a race blog.

Happy Hour of the Damned in mass market - up for preorder. My buddy Mark Henry's screamingly funny (and charmin

August 12, 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: 1686 (not bad)

Present Total Word Count: 2326 words

Goal: 30,000 words

Due date: October 15

Things accomplished in fiction: Still working on thi

New project: Go

Finally. After as much downtime as I can give myself, I've started my segment of Fort Freak, the upcoming Wild Cards project I announced a few months ago. Yes, I'm only just now getting around to it. (You may recall that I owed Dreadnought to Tor by the beginning of this month.)

It would be a gross understatement to say that I am super-psyched about my contribution to this mosaic novel. No, seriously — just now I had to delete a row of exclamation points because they looked silly; but now I

Opinions, Theories, Guesses, and Suspicions

For some time now, I've been meaning to write up a little steampunk primer post to serve as an introduction for people who aren't familiar with the term or the aesthetic. But every time I started writing I got sidetracked, and began wandering, and ended up with something bulkier and denser than I really wanted.

So I gave up.

Temporarily.

Last weekend's PNWA conference really underscored for me how many people are (a). totally interested in the subject, but (b). have no idea (or only a vague ide

random observations

I'm neither suggesting nor implying anything about either field, but tonight I realized something really freaking obvious about two of my favorite research interests — ghost hunting and archeology. Which is to say — they're not terribly different.

I was watching that new PBS show "Time Team America" and it dawned on me that both ghost-hunting and archeology rely heavily on (a). grueling, tedious, frequently unrewarding legwork, and (b). (these days) magnetic- and electric-field tech — which sca

built from nothing but high hopes and thin air

Last night I went to my friend Kat Richardson's book release event for her new novel Vanished. The reading was really great — well attended, and a whole lot of fun. I recommend nabbing that book … or well, heck, the whole series really. May as well start at the beginning.

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Speaking of the University of Washington Bookstore (I did. Just now. That's where the reading was held.) … things have finally firmed up for my next event there. On November 4, at 7:00 p.m., you'll find me at this

I'm back! And I've got links!

Who likes cover flats? WE like cover flats! And Mark Henry has all your cover flat and transvestite needs covered today, I tell you what. Contest going on over at his page. Click to go check it out, if only to read a little pun and watch Divine do a little strut.

SFWA.org as revamped by Mary Robinette Kowal. And therefore the organization was hauled kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat. NOW it looks like the hub of a modern writers association, and not like something done on

Before I forget…

In all the excitement of the last couple of days (and once again, seriously — thank you all for the birthday wishes and general goodwill) …I almost forgot to post this. So here we go. Just in time. Stalkers take note.

This weekend, you can find me at the Pacific Northwest Writers Association conference out at Seatac with my Team Seattle homies. Behold. My grueling schedule:

Urban Fantasy 101 with Richelle Mead, Caitlin Kittredge, Mark Henry, and Kat Richardson; Friday from 4:15 – 5:45 p.m in Em