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August 20, 2010

No word metrics today – yes, I know. Giant loser, yours truly. But in my defense, I cleaned up and finally sent off that short piece I drafted last weekend, and so far the editor seems pleased. One more editorial review before it's accepted and official, though. I'll update with details as soon as I can talk about it.

Also preventing me from fresh composition – today I spent some time on the phone with the Nashville Public Library, which was awesome. We talked steampunk, Seattle, video...

August 19, 2010

Here's today'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: 2998 (not bad)

Present total word count: 30,635 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Introduced a new crew member who, should there ever be a movie, must totally ...

August 18, 2010

Here's today'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: 4016 (much better!)

Present total word count: 27,637 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Got thrown out of a room so a nurse could stitch up a patient in peace; ...

August 17, 2010

I um… don't have any word metrics to post. I took the afternoon off and went to Ballard for lunch and shenanigans with Kat; and no, this was not the most RESPONSIBLE use of my time given my hideous looming deadline, but I'm very glad I did it. Once in awhile, you need an afternoon off. You know?

Here. Have a kitty video.

[:: runs away ::]

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August 16, 2010

Here's today'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: 2152 (not good)

Present total word count: 23,621 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Went to the underground in order to scare up missing crew members, visit...

Two more quick things

Boneshaker made the cover of Scholastic's Teen Readers book club – Huzzah! And many thanks to Scott Westerfeld, for passing the heads-up along. I knew there was a Scholastic version of the book (it went out in the last printing, I believe), but this is the first I've seen it referenced in the wild. (I don't know if the editions are markedly different. I haven't seen them side by side to compare.)

Improbable Cog's Open Source Jewelry Project – Noah designs biomechanical, Art Nouveau bling...

Happy Monday!

Publishers Weekly weighs in on Dreadnought:

[Starred Review :] Dreadnought

Cherie Priest, Tor, $14.99 paper (480p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2578-5

An intimate, well-crafted portrait of a nurse on a mission adds depth to this exceptional Civil War steampunk thriller, the self-contained sequel to 2009's Locus Award-winning Boneshaker. Mercy Lynch, recently widowed and taxed to exhaustion by caring for Confederate wounded in Richmond, must cross the war-torn nation to reach her estranged father, who lies d...

PlunderZOO

So my awesome friend San has an awesome dog named Hanzo. Hanzo is a rescued pit bull puppy (well, he's a year old now), and he needs surgery, but don't worry — he's going to get that surgery one way or another. So this isn't one of those OMG SEND MONIES FOR THIS PUPPEE OR IT WILL BE DIE posts.

Instead, this post is a testament to San's capacity for truly clever shit. For you see, using only his wits, his art supplies, and a dash of code, he's created the PlunderZoo – an art...

August 14, 2010

Today I took a very brief break from Ganymede, because I owe a short piece to a very nice editor by the middle of next month – but I promised it early, for the sake of everyone's sanity. Really, I want to get it out of the way before DragonCon … so it's one less thing on my plate to worry about while I'm in Atlanta.

I'll leave the editor and the project unnamed for the moment, until things are official and accepted and whatnot. But I promised this short (it's a short story, yes, but not in...

August 12, 2010 – Word Metrics

Why yes I am a posting fool today – but that doesn't mean I haven't been working my ass off, I assure you.

Here's today'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: 4179 (quite good!)
Present total word count: 21,469 words

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