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Devil

I suppose I should get this out of the way up front: I've been a Shyamalan fan for years. I saw The Sixth Sense the day it came out, before everyone knew the big OMG TWIST at the end; Unbreakable was outstanding, and not just because I love Samuel L. Jackson; Signs was brilliant, I don't care what anybody says; and I even liked The Village and Lady in the Water, though neither one came off as his strongest work.

Then, I confess, he lost me with The Happening. I mean, seriously. What? ...

September 17, 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: 2844 (2-day total = terrible)

Present total word count: 66,099 words

Things accomplished in real life: HAHA I HAVE BLOGGED WORDS. Okay, fact is – the last...

September 15, 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: 3093 (satisfactory)

Present total word count: 63,255 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Got everybody on board for the big plan. Then headed out to Lake P...

September 14, 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: 3564 (not terrible)

Present total word count: 60,162 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Went to the Garden House and got the scoop.

Next up: It's time f...

Tonight

This evening at the University Book Store – 7:00 p.m. – in Seattle's U-district, Brandon Sanderson will be swinging by to read and sign. I met him in D.C. at the ALA conference, and he's a total hoot – well worth coming out to hear. Barring unforeseen catastrophe, the husband and I plan to attend. Do ye also likewise.

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

September 13, 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: 1226 (bah again)

Present total word count: 56,598 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Set up two rooms for the night that are NOT in the whorehouse, much t...

Monday Stuff

Hey folks! Just a quick post to clarify a misunderstanding going around – a very understandable misunderstanding, but one I wish to sort out all the same.

To wit: If you have an Advance Readers Copy of Dreadnought you will note that it comes complete with cover art. However, this is not the FINAL cover art. It was changed over the summer. (And that-there link leads to Tor's art director, so you can safely assume she knows what she's talking about.)

Anyway. Below I give you the art which...

September 12, 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: 2211 (bah)

Present total word count: 55,372 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Put the ship in the shop for repairs, headed into town.

Next up: Drop in t...

September 11, 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: 1623 (bah)

Present total word count: 53,161 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Switched back to Andan Cly, who has arrived in New Orleans just in time to b...

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Zombies, cornball evil Umbrella executives, PEW PEW PEW, bad guys, tentacle mouthy things, the Redfields (hell, all they needed was Jill Valentine for a full deck of the usual suspects), lots of wack-tackular CGI and weirdo violence with stuff going SPLOOSH, and holy crap the guy who played Chris was a dead-ringer for the game avatar, and WHAT IS WITH THAT BIG THING WITH THE HAMMER/AXE BANG BANG, tunnels, stasis, underground lairs, sterile laboratory environments, ONLY AN ARMY OF 10,000...