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September 26, 2010

Here's the weekend's progress on my Hunley version 4.0 submarine book about Andan Cly and his crew having a damp misadventure in a Texian-occupied New Orleans, plus Bonus! guerrilla warfare, other assorted historic pirates, and an octoroon madam who moonlights as a Union spy.

Project: Ganymede

Deadline: November 1, 2010

New words written: 2212 (meh)

Present total word count: 77,296 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Got a little serious, then a little silly. Ended the chapter on a slightly ...

September 25, 2010

Here's the weekend's progress on my Hunley version 4.0 submarine book about Andan Cly and his crew having a damp misadventure in a Texian-occupied New Orleans, plus Bonus! guerrilla warfare, other assorted historic pirates, and an octoroon madam who moonlights as a Union spy.

Project: Ganymede

Deadline: November 1, 2010

New words written: 2168 (meh)

Present total word count: 77,296 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Reappearance of old characters. ("Old" as in "you'll meet them in

September 23, 2010

Here's the weekend's progress on my Hunley version 4.0 submarine book about Andan Cly and his crew having a damp misadventure in a Texian-occupied New Orleans, plus Bonus! guerrilla warfare, other assorted historic pirates, and an octoroon madam who moonlights as a Union spy.

Project: Ganymede

Deadline: November 1, 2010

New words written: 2446 (meh)

Present total word count: 75,128 words

Things accomplished in fiction: This is probably the point in my word-metrics-keeping that I have to...

September 22, 2010

Here's the weekend's progress on my Hunley version 4.0 submarine book about Andan Cly and his crew having a damp misadventure in a Texian-occupied New Orleans, plus Bonus! guerrilla warfare, other assorted historic pirates, and an octoroon madam who moonlights as a Union spy.

Project: Ganymede

Deadline: November 1, 2010

New words written: 2646 (better)

Present total word count: 72,682 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Got the Ganymede 101, or 411, or whatever other numerical indication of i...

Audio/Digital/Other

I should've mentioned this with my big OMG HERE COMES DREADNOUGHT post yesterday, but I didn't get confirmation until after I'd already made the entry … so here goes now.

When it comes to alternate editions of Dreadnought: (1). I am told that the audio book will be released simultaneously with the trade paperback edition next week, yay!, (2). Likewise it should be available here via Kindle right around the same time, and (3). if you check the book's listing at Macmillan you will discover (and ...

September 21, 2010

Here's the weekend's progress on my Hunley version 4.0 submarine book about Andan Cly and his crew having a damp misadventure in a Texian-occupied New Orleans, plus Bonus! guerrilla warfare, other assorted historic pirates, and an octoroon madam who moonlights as a Union spy.

Project: Ganymede

Deadline: November 1, 2010

New words written: 1310 (bah)

Present total word count: 70,036 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Checked out the Ganymede.

Next up: Take it for a test run.

Things...

One Week

If you keep up with my Twitter feed, you already know this – but yesterday I received my box of Dreadnought author copies. Once I finished doing my traditional happydance and petting these copies as if they were kittens, it struck me: In just one week this book will be for sale … everywhere.

This is both awesome and terrifying.

It's awesome because, well, this is my ninth novel – and I tell you what, these book-birthdays never stop being awesome. Maybe they get boring for some people, at ...

Mondays: Not All Bad

Two bits of awesome news, presented in the order in which they appeared (confirmed) in my in-box – and not due to any particular prejudice for or against either announcement since both of them are really awesome:

Audible picks up 2 more of my titles – Much to my personal glee, a deal has been struck for audio productions of two Subterranean novellas: my based-on-a-family-legend Kentucky cave monster story Those Who Went Remain There Still; and Clockwork Century short Clementine (which will...

Clash of the Geeks

Hey folks! Just poking my head in on a windy, gray Monday morning to find out if the idea of a UNICORN-PEGASUS-KITTEN sounds awesome to you. It does? Of course it does! And if I should add that the unicorn-pegasus-kitten is being ridden by Wil Wheaton in a dramatic clown sweater? CONSIDER THE ANTE UPPED. But wait, there's more! WHAT IF I mentioned that the Wheaton-warrior astride this fantastical steed is MENACING AN ORC with the face of John Scalzi?

AND IT'S ALL FOR CHARITY!!!11111!!!

Ladi...

September 18, 2010

Here's the weekend's progress on my Hunley version 4.0 submarine book about Andan Cly and his crew having a damp misadventure in a Texian-occupied New Orleans, plus Bonus! guerrilla warfare, other assorted historic pirates, and an octoroon madam who moonlights as a Union spy.

Project: Ganymede

Deadline: November 1, 2010

New words written: 2627 (not bad, not great)

Present total word count: 68,726 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Reached the camp of the bayou guerrillas, and took a look...