Take That, Future Tim

Over the weekend I finished my first draft of City of the Fallen Sky, my Pathfinder Tales novel. I'm pleased with it. And I have 21 whole days to revise it before the August 1 deadline! It's about 91,000 words total (though it'll get a bit longer in revision). I wrote the last 40,000 of those words in the span of nine days. I am tired but happy. After August 1, my life gets a lot less deadline-y. No novels due until February 2012. That's forever away! Definitely a problem for Future Tim.

My story "Down with the Lizards and the Bees" is now 99 cents on Kindle, with an awesome cover by Jenn Reese. (Psst: hire her to do your covers to. She rocks.) Should be at B&N for the Nook in a couple of days. This is the first story I wrote about actor/psychic Bradley Bowman, who went on to become a major character in the Marla Mason series. Plus: it has trains to the underworld, monitor lizards, and, yes, bees!

And I'm sufficiently fond of this story that I'll link to it again: "We Go Back" is now in print and audio at Escape Pod.

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