June 30, 2010

Posted on | 1 year, 7 months ago, in the early evening | 2 Comments

As some of you noticed, this site went down for a bit today. For (I think) the first time ever, I exceeded my bandwidth; but my intrepid webmaster (and old friend) Greg sorted it out as soon as he could, and voila – once again I am ready to blog.

So here goes. First! Some loose bullet points:

  • Apex Books hosts a summer of love – Offering digital titles on the cheap, and bargain-basement discounts on one feature book a week. This week’s feature is Aegri Somnia – a Stoker-nominated anthology including the story “Wishbones” by yours truly. Go check it out!

  • Coilhouse #5 is on sale now – Speaking of awesome literary productions, this magazine is killer every single issue – and this one comes with all sorts of bells and whistles (fold out goodies! paper dolls!)

  • The Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel – This was waiting for me at the University Book Store. I picked it up while I was out running errands this afternoon, and it is so very shiny and pretty, and I hugged it so much that the cat got jealous.

And now, here are today’s stats on my second urban fantasy adventure — this time with my neurotic undead thief, her shady agent, a cigar box full of magical penis bones, a mentally ill former NASA engineer-turned-sorceress, and the continued fabulosity of a Cuban drag queen:


Project: Hellbent
Deadline: August 9, 2010
New words written: 3206 (not bad)
Present total word count: 51,406 words

Things accomplished in fiction: Broke the 50K mark! A meaningless milestone, except that I vowed to myself that I would achieve it by the end of June, and LOOKIT. [:: high fives self ::] I’m right on track to meet the deadline. It’ll take a death march, but I’ve done worse and the story is really picking up steam.

Things accomplished in real life: Wrapped up troublesome day-job project and sent it off to zee boss; went to University District; picked up fish supplies and four silver disco mice for the cat to nom; cleaned the fish tank; argued with the cat about where I was going to work.

Total Official Word Count of 2010: 75,123 words

Category: misc

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2 Responses to “June 30, 2010”

  1. Mer
    June 30th, 2010 @ 6:51 pm

    LOVE!!!!

  2. Jason Sizemore
    July 1st, 2010 @ 6:32 am

    Thanks for the signal boost, you steampunk Goddess. :)

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