In other news …

Posted on | 3 years, 8 months ago, in the early evening | 3 Comments

I’ve gotten the go-ahead that it’s safe to announce this, and since I can scarcely restrain myself for one more moment, here goes: I’m doing another novella for Subterranean Press! [:: insert full-body bootydances here ::] That’s right, sometime late next year Dreadful Skin and Those Who Went Remain There Still will be getting a new baby sister called The Clementine.

It’s a blissfully tricky project, a stand-alone steampunk vignette set in the same world as The Boneshaker, which is next year’s offering from Tor (after Fathom). I could tell you I’m excited about it, but I suck at understatement so let’s just say instead that I’m thrilled for the opportunity to do another story in this universe.*

The hook? Oh yes. Well. The hook.

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1879. Maria Isabella Boyd has had just about enough of this goddamned Civil War. Her early successes as a Confederate spy have led to notoriety that prohibits further espionage work; and her loyalties have been called into question over a disastrous marriage to a Union officer. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty, she goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.

But that’s not going so well either…

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Erm. Yes. I might have hypothetically taken a famous Confederate spy and given her a job at Pinkerton’s, where she shall Fight Crime. Sort of. Actually, in her very first case she ends up joining forces with the criminal — a runaway slave who’s felonied his way back and forth across the continent, leaving a trail of broken banks, stolen war machines, and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to shining sea.

She helps him try to get his ship back. It once was called The Free Crow, until it was swiped out from under him and renamed The Clementine.

OMG I cannot wait to write this book.
:-D


* In case you’re new to the page, as part of the background to my steampunk universe setting, the American Civil War continues to rage in the late 1870s.

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3 Responses to “In other news …”

  1. Jess Nevins
    June 9th, 2008 @ 7:21 pm

    Rock on with your bad self! Looking forward to reading it.

  2. Cyndy
    June 9th, 2008 @ 8:00 pm

    Congratulations! And also yay! :)

  3. Cherie
    June 9th, 2008 @ 8:10 pm

    Thanks, you two!

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