link posts are like a box of chocolates

I was rather busy yesterday, performing such feats as grocery shopping, fish-tank cleaning, Christmas present wrapping/boxing/shipping, stock signing at 2 bookstores, sorting/filling out/mailing a whole lot of important paperwork, and generally running myself ragged. If I am in top form today, I might get caught up on all the outstanding errands and tasks that have been hanging over my head like the sword of Damocles.

By "caught up" I mean "make it all the way back to Square One." But if I expect to have a hope in heck of reaching this goal, I need to escape the gravitational pull of the internet. However, I do not want to leave things blank and empty. Therefore you get links:

The Stranger's "Strangercrombie" charity drive – Raising money for Childhaven and the Downtown Emergency Services Center (click here to read more about both worthy causes). And up for bidding is a steampunk prize pack, including VIP tickets to the Steampunk Exhibition Ball at the Museum of History and Industry, signed copies of all my Clockwork Century books, and more.

Owlcat Mountain reviews Bloodshot – And comes away impressed! Or at least, amused. I'm glad the reviewer dug the humor, because I don't often get to write "funny." I more often write "dark," so this was an entertaining departure from a creative standpoint – and I'm happy to see readers plugging into it.

Ravenous Reader tackles Boneshaker – I'm pleased to see people still discovering this series, and it blows my mind (in the best of all possible ways) that bloggers/bookclubs/reviewers are still talking about Boneshaker even though it's been out for fourteen months.

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