Cherie Priest's Blog: It's awards season, so here comes the shameless self-promotion, page 123

Ta-Da!

As I have been freshly informed, both Wings to the Kingdom and Not Flesh Nor Feathers are now available on Kindle as ebooks. Huzzah and hurrah! I'm glad to know they finally landed, and now the folks who've demanded those books in this format can be appeased.

Many thanks to everyone who has shown interest, to those who may show interest in the future, and to YogaGrrl for the heads up.

[Crossposted to/from my website. If you'd like to comment, you can do so either here or there.]

July 2, 2009

Here's today's progress on the alternate-history battlefield adventure about a widowed nurse from a Confederate hospital aboard a west-bound train pulled by a Union war engine — now with military intrigue, steampunk Texas rangers, undead political separatists, murderous plots, bushwhackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:

Project: Dreadnought

New Words: 5203 (a 2-day total, but 4K+ was written today.)

Present Total Word Count: 109,014 words

Goal: 135,000 words

Things Accomplished i

Coming Up

I got a little writing done today, though not as much as I would've preferred — only about 1200 words (which is better than nothing, but still). I ran into that old quandary of Failure To Plot This Far, and needed to take a few hours to sort out what happens next. I mean, I know what happens next, I'm just not sure how to … erm … get to what happens next. But I think I have it figured out now.

Anyway. After spending all morning doing day-job stuff and spending a bit after lunch doing writer s

June 30, 2009

Here's today's progress on the alternate-history battlefield adventure about a widowed nurse from a Confederate hospital aboard a west-bound train pulled by a Union war engine — now with military intrigue, steampunk Texas rangers, undead political separatists, murderous plots, bushwhackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:

Project: Dreadnought

New Words: 3967 (pretty good!)

Present Total Word Count: 103,811 words

Goal: 120,000 words

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Performed day-jo

June 29, 2009

Here's today's progress on the alternate-history battlefield adventure about a widowed nurse from a Confederate hospital aboard a west-bound train pulled by a Union war engine — now with military intrigue, steampunk Texas rangers, undead political separatists, murderous plots, bushwhackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:

Project: Dreadnought

New Words: 3592 (not bad)

Present Total Word Count: 99,844 words

Goal: 120,000 words

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Performed day-job duti

Things I learned today

If you and your friend have become separated in a crowded venue, and you see that she is standing on tip-toe, searching for you, and her name happens to be "Bear" … then it is inadvertently hilarious to wave and shout, "Bear!" because people will duck and cover, man.

Also, it turns out that Seattle has a chapter of goth nun drag queens.

There is absolutely nothing I do not like about that.

[Crossposted to/from my website. If you'd like to comment, you can do so either here or there.]

June 26, 2009

Here's today's progress on the alternate-history battlefield adventure about a widowed nurse from a Confederate hospital aboard a west-bound train pulled by a Union war engine — now with military intrigue, steampunk Texas rangers, undead political separatists, murderous plots, bushwhackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:

Project: Dreadnought

New Words: 1641 (removed some content; but still, net gain.)

Present Total Word Count: 96,252 words

Goal: 120,000 words

Things Accomplished in

In passing

I am sad for this boy — the dancing kid with the huge voice and the amazing moves. I am sorry about the childhood he seems to have missed, and the defective wreck of an adult he eventually became.

But damn, he could dance.

And damn, he could sing.

Ah, well.

[Crossposted to/from my website. If you'd like to comment, you can do so either here or there.]

June 25, 2009

No, I didn’t get any writing work done yesterday (though I kept up my day-job quota; that was all I had the stamina for). People keep sending me articles about how this is the worst allergy season EVAH in Seattle, but then again people were sending me articles on the subject last year, too — so this is only marginally reassuring.

In short, I’ve been sick as a dog off and on for the last few weeks, and this week has been particularly bad. I’ve nearly lost my voice, I’m permanently congested, a

Much better!

Here’s today’s progress on the alternate-history battlefield adventure about a widowed nurse from a Confederate hospital aboard a west-bound train pulled by a Union war engine — now with military intrigue, steampunk Texas rangers, undead political separatists, murderous plots, bushwhackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:

Project: Dreadnought

New Words: 4165 (RAR!)

Present Total Word Count: 89,237 words

Goal: 120,000 words

Things Accomplished in Fiction: STUFF. Also mayhem and wack