Finally I have news!

Yes! News! Actual news, and not mere threats of news!
THIS news: The Clockwork Century is expanding!

You already know that in 2012 you'll be getting my book about teenage juvenile delinquents, hypothetical ghosts, and gangland mayhem within the walled city of Seattle … now with Bonus! zombie Sasquatch and the return of everyone's favorite elderly cross-dressing Native American princess - Inexplicables - but now yet another can be revealed!

Around this same time in 2013, you-the-readers will be on the receiving end of a fifth installment from Tor - tentatively called ...

[:: drumroll please ::] Fiddlehead [:: throws confetti ::]
[:: major happydances ::]

This one will be a wartime espionage Washington D.C. thriller about Abraham Lincoln, Belle Boyd, and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency raising hell to protect a primitive-but-powerful computer in 1880 - smack in the middle of Ulysses S. Grant's bid for a third presidential term. (P.S. there will be zombies.)

I, for one, cannot freaking wait to write this bad-boy. And I'm so excited that I finally get to spill some of the great news that's driving me bananas right now!*

[:: happydances ::]
[:: hippyshakes ::]
[:: funkychickens ::]



* That's right. There's YET MORE NEWS pending. In fact, this isn't what I expected to land first. But HUZZAH I say HUZZAH regardless!