May 12, 2009

Posted on | 2 years, 8 months ago, in the early evening | 3 Comments

WOO what a good day it’s been thus far. Not only have I had a rockin’ writing afternoon, but I finally, finally, finally get to unmask the last of my secret projects. For behold, now it can be declared: There will, in fact, be another Wild Cards book — and it shall be a strange and wonderful police procedural called Fort Freak, and I get to contribute to it. [Click that link for details, and George's official sentiments.]

[:: hand flappies ::]
[:: bootydances ::]

MAN. That is a weight offa my chest, I tell you what. There’s nothing on earth quite so tooth-rattling as having super-cool news and not being able to share it, and I’ve had more than my share of that tooth-rattling going on over the last few months.

So here’s the breakdown: After a long dry spell, 2009 is looking like a very busy spell for yours truly — with Dreadnought, my Fort Freak segments, and Bloodshot due before the end of the year (and Hellbent sometime in 2010). No, I’m not complaining. I’m thrilled silly because oh thank heaven, when it rains, it pours.

So. Yes. Well.

In addition to that good news, here’s today’s progress (so far) on the battlefield adventure about a widowed nurse from a Confederate hospital aboard a west-bound train pulled by a Union war engine — now with military intrigue, steampunk Texas rangers, undead political separatists, murderous plots, bushwackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:

Project: Dreadnought
New Words: 4871 (BOO-YAH)
Present Total Word Count: 31,116 words
Goal: 100,000 words



Things Accomplished in Fiction: The American Civil War has battle mechs because I say it does, that’s why.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Virtually nothing, except day job work.

Reason for Stopping: My fingers are going numb from all this typing. Time to get up, make a cup of tea, maybe watch some TV or something to decompress. I didn’t finish the Neverending Scene that I’d intended to complete, but I’ll come back to it tonight or tomorrow.

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3 Responses to “May 12, 2009”

  1. Malcolm Tredinnick
    May 12th, 2009 @ 6:33 pm

    You have been having a good year, work-wise, haven’t you? Yay. Making a living is so much easier when it works. :-)

    Wow, “Wildcards” takes me back a few years. I was reading those just after I moved cities (in Australia, that’s not just a few miles down the road) to become a graduate student and had no money and couldn’t buy many books (I read like the wind when I have books around). One of the first wildcard combined books had come out and I picked it up cheaply somehow. I read it to pieces (quite literally — it fell apart) and kind of got hooked on the universe. Very strong memories associated with that series. Happy you got the gig there, ’cause, you know … new stories!

  2. Cherie
    May 12th, 2009 @ 6:34 pm

    Thanks dude! I also am tickled pink; and this is gonna be a GOOD one. I promise!

  3. Kevin Andrew Murphy
    May 13th, 2009 @ 3:32 am

    Oh, it definitely will be. I’ve read her plot outline and character sketches. And while George would kill me if I let any of it out, color me very impressed and professionally jealous.

    Of course I’m getting to write one of the stories too, so I get to play in the sandbox alongside her.

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