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April 27, 2009

Yes yes, I’ve been absent a lot lately. I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to clean up an enormous, tragically torqued file for my day-job … and also trying to juggle two creative projects which alternately demand appalling portions of my attention. At the moment, I’m trying to give priority to the day-job deadline, because I really want to have this file fixed in its entirety before Penguicon — for which I’ll be flying out on Thursday.

But Dreadnought progress is the only thing I can satisf

April 23, 2009

Here’s recent progress on the 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, bushwackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:

Project: Dreadnought

New Words: 1515 (not great — that’s a 2-day total)

Present Total Word Count: 14,598 words

Goal: 100,000 words

Observations: Jesus, but planning a cross-country t

Links and Info Round-Up

It’s the end of genre fiction as we know it (and I feel fine). Barnes & Noble’s new Blog, operated by Paul Goat Allen (of forum moderator fame). And no, I’m not just linking it because he mentions me. Well, that’s not the only reason. I swear.

Wild Cards consortium news. Straight from George’s mouth. My final and formal statement on the matter is this: SQUEEE OMG !11!!!ELEVENTY!!! *cough cough* I mean, I am very proud and excited to be included in such fine company, and I can’t wait to g

Grab-Bag Assortment

Once more, with feeling. I know I just redid my main page the other day, but I wasn’t “feeling it.” So I’ve given it a new look — something glossy, pretty, and a little weird. It pleases me. I think I’ll keep this one for awhile.

Blood of the Muse really liked Fathom. This guy’s reviews are always fun and spoiler-free, and I’m not just saying that because he’s said very nice things about my books.

Boneshaker preorders. Over the weekend, I received half a dozen emails asking if it was all righ

nothing hurts like your mouth

I am sick to death of thinking about my teeth, and now I don’t have to for another four months.* I am officially, thoroughly, obnoxiously all caught up with my ten-years-lapsed dental work … and to that I say “Praise Steve, and pass the Doritos.”

Well, actually I’m more inclined to say, “…and pass the pudding.” They shot me up again, and this time it was the right side of my face that felt like a slab of somebody else’s liver. But now that the Novocaine is all worn off and I can resume making

cat self-liberates from bag

I was going to keep this loosely under my hat — which is to say, it’d been leaked, and it’d appeared elsewhere on the ‘net, but I wasn’t going to make a show of it over here until there was a final product and/or official word. But then I said to myself, “Self, why should I keep mum while everyone else gets to show off the preliminary cover of Boneshaker?”

Because that’s totally what the “it” in question refers to. And furthermore, that link will totally take you to a preorder page at Amazon. I

April 15, 2009

I haven’t made a huge amount of progress on DREADNOUGHT today, due to the critical need for groceries that ate up two hours in the middle of my work time. But such is life. And now I have food, so I shall not starve.

So here’s today’s progress on the 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, bushwackers, bandit

Steve Smiles upon the Internet

But the great Intergalactic Fruitbat does his smiling upside-down, so don’t be confused and think he’s giving you the ol’ stink-eye. This exceedingly fine bit of iconography was created by Shanna. And Steve looked upon it, and saw that it was good.

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

April 14, 2009

This morning was devoted to day-job work, and then after lunchtime I took a break to noodle around with my website’s new look. Feel free to visit. Click around. Tell me if you notice anything that isn’t working, or that looks bad.*

And here’s today’s progress on the 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, bu

April 13, 2009

Here’s today’s progress on the 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, bushwackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:

Project: Dreadnought

New Words: 2115 (not bad)

Present Total Word Count: 7122 words

Goal: 100,000 words

Things Accomplished in Fiction: Cut short the mourning period in favor of a f