I’ve just posted Chapter 6 of the Without a Summer draft, for those of you reading along. A little teaser. I’m still a little unclear on how I pulled this off, but I actually wrote 2000 words yesterday while at Orycon. Today, I’m at a more reasonable — considering I was at a con — 400
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Andrew P. Mayer joins Howard, Mary, and Dan at Dragon*Con 2011. Andrew’s has one book out, The Falling Machine, and the second book in this “Society of Steam” series, Hearts of Smoke, comes out on November 22nd. Andrew describes them as “steampunk superhero” novels, which nicely takes us into our topic, which centers around taking a
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Surprise! Well, actually wait– let me back up. After two years of searching, Rob has finally gotten a job offer. You may now join us in melting with relief. It’s a really, really good opportunity but necessitates a move to Chicago. We will likely move after the book launch for Glamour in Glass in April
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I’m heading down to Orycon today. Today is a long day, but that means plenty of opportunities to find me. I have an ARC of Glamour in Glass to show off… Here’s where you can find me. Sat Nov 12 11:00:am Sat Nov 12 12:00:pm SFWA Business Meeting Lincoln SFWA Members are urged to attend.
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Hey, for those of you reading along, I’ve just posted the draft of Chapter 5 of Without a Summer. That’s right, I finished a chapter while travelling. And now I’m off to Orycon, where I hope to see some of you.
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Hey guys! My latest novel, Glamour in Glass, isn’t due out until April of next year, but I stopped by Tor.com this week and signed copies of the ARCs for them. They have five copies to give away. You should enter! The ARCs have full colour covers and are very, very pretty. I am biased,
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If you are reading along, I’ve posted Chapter 4 of the Without a Summer draft. (If you want to be reading, read the ground rules and drop me a line.) Because I knew I would be travelling, I front-loaded my month with a fairly high per day word count. I was writing between three and four thousand
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Are you doing NaNoWriMo this year? Here, Brandon has a pep talk for you over at Writing Excuses. I’m just past the 17,000 word mark myself and deep into Chapter 6. How are you doing? Listen to NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Brandon » Writing Excuses.
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I’ve just come out of the audition for Madame Butterfly. I was cut in the first round, which is disappointing — I won’t even pretend that it’s not — but not particularly crushing. The thing about auditions like this is that they are such a long shot anyway. You don’t go in expecting to get
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You know what will improve an author’s mood? Stopping by her publisher to sign ARCs.
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Dad just sent me this. I’m calling it “Parental Gothic.” In case you wondered why I was a ham… I come by it natural.
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I caught a redeye from Salt Lake City to NYC where I will be until Friday morning. Why? Because I’m clearly insane. In all seriousness, I have an audition tomorrow. For the Met. I’ve been called back for a show I auditioned for four years ago. You can read about that audition and I’ll tell