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June 22, 2010

My day was broken up again – and pleasantly so, though I'm not allowed to talk about it yet. Long story short, I had an interview with [::REDACTED::] regarding [::REDACTED::] for [::REDACTED::]. It was a lot of fun, but it threw my work day a bit, so I'm not yet ready to post word counts.

Instead, just a few short links real quick:
Irene Gallo on the Dreadnought cover – Irene is the art director at Tor, and in her post she talks about the decisions and revisions that went into the final...

June 21, 2010

Today I took a break around lunchtime and headed out to the Eckstein Middle School, where I rambled for fifteen or twenty minutes at 400 eighth graders as part of an end-of-year ceremony-type-thing. It was fun, and the kids were great, and the teachers are absolutely lovely. Many thanks to the lot of them for having me out there – and for the flowers, and the schwag tote with all the goodies in it.

(I am particularly delighted by their "independently published" collection of detective...

At last!

Dreadnought has an official, final cover.

(I think.)

Not to put too fine a point on it, but it is SUPERHAWT.

And I'm going to post it in a big fat size, so I'm throwing it behind a cut.

Make with the clicking! »

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Jonah Hex

Okay, I'm not gonna lie: This was not the worst movie I've ever seen. It had a lot of style, Josh Brolin was pretty great, I loved the dog, and you kind of had me at "paranormal post-Civil War weird west with steampunky overtones." Granted, the problems were many and varied, but the major ones would've been so easy to rectify that it annoys me how no one did.

I'm going to keep my thoughts brief, and put them behind a cut because there will be spoilers. So if you're reading this through a...

June 17, 2010

Today I holed up and actually made some freaking progress. About 4,000 words of the count posted below were composed this afternoon [:: flexes muscles ::] so RAR I say, RAR. Of course, that means I have absolutely nothing else to blog about.

So here are the recent stats on my second urban fantasy adventure — this time with my neurotic undead thief, her shady agent, a cigar box full of magical penis bones, a mentally ill former NASA engineer-turned-sorceress, and the continued fabulosity of ...

June 16, 2010

I'm having another one of those days where the work surrounding being a writer is preventing me from writing, but those days happen every now and again – it's just the nature of the beast. And they are ultimately productive, so that's nice.

In short, today I've done the usual allotment of day-job work; then I went on to field a string of important emails, sort out the particulars of a speaking gig on the 21st, arrange an interview for a local magazine on the 22nd, nail down my travel...

Happy updates ahoy!

Via my marvelous agent – it's finally announceable: We've reached an agreement with Tor for two more Clockwork Century books to follow up Boneshaker and this fall's Dreadnought!

Tentatively they shall be Ganymede (2011) and Inexplicable (2012), and I shall be over here doing the happy book sale bootydance! (Not such a dignified display, really, but a very enthusiastic one all the same.)

(I'll be back to post a few details regarding these upcoming titles … but not until this evening or...

June 14, 2010

As is sometimes the case, I've had one of those days – a "writing business" day that involved no writing at all. Therefore, no pesky word meter to report, hurrah! Or boo, as the case may be. I need a draft of this book by August 9th, after all.

Today I did day-job work all morning; went for a run; drove out to Lake Forest Park to sign stock at Third Place Books (so if you want a signed copy, well, they've got 'em); stopped for lunch at Taco Bell (because I never get to run for the border so...

June 11, 2010

No time for anything but a quick-and-dirty.

So here are today's stats on my second urban fantasy adventure — this time with my neurotic undead thief, her shady agent, a cigar box full of magical penis bones, a mentally ill former NASA engineer-turned-sorceress, and the continued fabulosity of a Cuban drag queen:

Project: Hellbent

Deadline: August 9, 2010

New words written: 2348 (meh)

Present total word count: 34,409 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Introduced ourselves to the San...

June 10, 2010

Gradually, I am getting better at this "discipline" thing. It's not something that comes naturally to me, I assure you; and if I get out of the writing-every-day habit, it's hard for me to return to it with any serious vigor. Sadly, I have become badly out of the writing-every-day habit — but in my defense, that's mostly due to the rounds of editorial that have eaten my life since the beginning of the year.

(You remember those four projects that were due as drafts by the end of 2009...