January 18, 2010
Posted on | 7 months, 2 weeks ago, in the evening | 4 Comments
It’s been a day of good news over here, though I have yet to get any writing done this evening – so no metrics again today. I suspect this will come as a relief to some of you; I know it’s dull, scrolling down the page and seeing that goofy little bar graphic over, and over, and over again. But people ask me all the time what it’s like, being a writer; so there you go. Yesterday you worked. Today you are working. Tomorrow you will work again. It’s a constant chipping away at a big thing, whittling it down until it’ll fit between two covers. It happens slowly.
I imagine it’s kind of like golf: Fun and fulfilling for the participant, but excessively tedious for the spectator.
Anyway. On to the good news. First up, as of this morning … Clementine is officially available for preorder! If you click that link you’ll go to the listing at Subterranean; and my only regret is that we don’t have a cover up yet. I, for one, cannot wait to get a gander at the finished cover — because I’ve been lucky enough to peek at the in-process artwork (which I can’t share here, I’m afraid) from the marvelous Myke Amend.
To clear up a few of the questions I received when I posted this news on Twitter/Facebook, please take note of the following: Clementine is a kind-of-sequel to Boneshaker produced by Subterranean Press. It’s a shorter work — a novella — and it will be available in both a trade and limited edition. Without lapsing into spoilers, I will say this much about its story: At the end of Boneshaker, the air pirate Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey loses something that is very important to him. Clementine is the story of how he goes and gets it back.
Clementine will become available at the end of May. But if you’re interested in picking up a limited edition (signed, with the “Tanglefoot” chapbook) you may want to order sooner rather than later. Subterranean is only printing 200 of them.
Likewise, there will also be a Boneshaker follow-up from Tor later this year. This will be a full-length novel called Dreadnought, to be released in trade paperback sometime in the fall. Again, without resorting to spoilers: The Underground welcome wagon, Jeremiah Swakhammer, has a daughter living back east, working as a nurse in a Civil War hospital; Dreadnought is the story of her westward trek to join him — across battlegrounds and rivers, carried by a Union war engine called the Dreadnought. Along the way there are spies, battle mechs, a steampunk Texas Ranger, and (of course) some rotters.
For more information, visit The Clockwork Century and poke around. There, you’ll find lots of (nonspoilery) information on this universe and the projects that are slated to appear therein. If, after poking around, you still have questions — feel free to leave them here in the comments or email me.
But the Clementine preorder availability wasn’t the only good news! According to Locus magazine, Boneshaker is this month’s best-selling science fiction/fantasy trade paperback. Holy crap, I say! Though I admit, I don’t know what else to say to this news, except thank you — to everyone who’s taken a chance on this weird little book. Thanks so much for the word-of-mouth, the blog posts, the Amazon and B&N reviews, and everything else. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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January 18th, 2010 @ 8:44 pm
Hey Cherie,
I would just like to say I just finished Boneshaker and I cannot wait until the sequel comes out. Easily the best book I have ever read!
January 18th, 2010 @ 8:50 pm
Wow, thank you so much! I’m really glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for saying so.
January 19th, 2010 @ 7:20 am
I have blogged about your book several times and no need to thank. I think it is the least any of us could do that have been lucky to read Boneshaker. I am happy to know we will see more of your steampunk pirates.
So happy to know that there is more to come. Really looking forward to it.
January 19th, 2010 @ 6:32 pm
While you may think your metrics and daily accomplishments are quite dull they are not so to me; in fact, they are the reason I read your blog. They are always so succint: words written, things accomplished in fiction, work, real life. Nothing elaborate, just bones. It makes me think “if she can do this in her day, then what do I have to show for mine?” This is quite useful to my procrastinating behind. Congratulations on your abovementioned success. I may just have to order one of those special editions…