FTW!
How do I love Publishers Weekly? Let me count the ways:
Starred review [!!!OMG!!!!] Boneshaker, Cherie Priest. Tor, $15.99 paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1841-1
Maternal love faces formidable challenges in this stellar steampunk tale. In an alternate 1880s America, mad inventor Leviticus Blue is blamed for destroying Civil War–era Seattle. When Zeke Wilkes, Blue’s son, goes into the [...]
August 28, 2009
Here’s today’s progress on my modern pseudo-noir police procedural about a neighborhood full of mutated freaks, a sexy former court reporter, an aging cop who’s being forced into retirement, and a multiple murder that took place thirty years ago in an all-night diner called “The Rathole.”
Project: Fort Freak “Remember the Rathole” (tentative)
New Words: 1276 [...]
AWESOME THINGS TODAY
Needly Needly Needly. Visited the Space Needle with Rosie and Caitlin, and was offered fish. Accepted fish. Held fish. Loved fish. Made silly faces.
Clockwork Century updated with artwork. To be more precise, you can click to go peek at some of Jon Foster’s preliminary sketches, from back when he was [...]
August 23, 2009
TheClockworkCentury.com has been updated … with cast information/some character bios from Dreadnought. Click over there and scroll down to the bottom to get a sneak peak and a few hints about what you might find in that book, when it debuts next year.
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And here’s the weekend’s progress on [...]
August 21, 2009
TOMORROW: Signing and release party for the Grants Pass anthology at Soul Food Books in Redmond, WA. I won’t be there, I’m afraid. But Jay Lake and Shannon Page will be present, as well as Seanan McGuire and Jennifer Brozek.
You can order/preorder the anthology right here. My contribution to this collection is [...]