July 20, 2009

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    Final cover and verbage for BONESHAKER. Liz sent me this today and I did a little dance, right here in my chair. That’s what it’ll look like, front to back, folks. I am genuinely awed by how cool this book is turning out.

    Check-ups at Elliot Bay. This morning, Spain the Cat went in for her (approximately) annual check-up. She was declared to be in such damn fine health that the vet won’t even classify her as a “senior” for another year.* However, she is succumbing a bit to the ol’ “middle-aged butt-sprawl.” Her weight has crept up by 3/4 of a pound in the last 3 years and now she’s almost a twelve-pound armload. Low-cal kibble, here we come.

    Steam-powered snowplow engines. YouTube link submitted by a reader. Fast-forward to 1:29 in that video if you think I’ve been kidding about chopping up zombies with a train’s snowplow.


Here’s today’s progress on the alternate-history 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, bushwhackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:

Project: Dreadnought
New Words: 4100 (awesome!)
Present Total Word Count: 131,739 words
Goal: 140,000 words



Things Accomplished in Real Life: Took kitty to the vet (much to her righteous indignation); came home to day-job work and housework; stopped for lunch; wrote like hell.

Things Accomplished in Fiction: Oh, such zombie-killing shall I give you! In other news, I have officially finished (Draft Zero of) the Big Action Climax. I feel relief … until I remember that I still have to wind all this stuff down. I think the guestimate of 140,000 words might actually turn out to be roughly correct. We shall see.

Reason for Stopping: Am exhausted. Need food. Maybe a drink.


* She’s about nine or ten years old.

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