Check it out, you guys, pictoral proof that why yes, Drollerie authors can indeed get books in print! My fellow Drollerie author Joely Sue Burkhart, who y’all may recall from assorted blog tour posts, is having herself a giveaway for a print copy of her novel The Rose of Shanhasson—follow the link to drop a comment on her post if you’re interested in a shot at winning one!
And tell her I sent you.
Because I’m peeved that a cold has thrown me off of my writing AGAIN, and because I didn’t want to go to bed without throwing at least a few words at the book, I bumped up the word count on Bone Walker by a couple hundred. Mostly, this gave me time to let Kendis discover a new thing about Christopher: he can get jealous!
And technically, I wrote sixty or so words of this the other day, but I never actually transcribed them out of the Moleskine, so I’m only counting them now. Because I can.
Written tonight: 222
Chapter 6 total: 1,104
Bone Walker total (first draft): 15,064
A lot of you reading this will probably see this posted elsewhere, but just in case you haven’t, word is going around the Net today about how Canadian SF writer Peter Watts was stopped at the US/Canadian border on his way back into Canada, beaten by border guards, and released in his shirtsleeves into the middle of a snowstorm. Various pertinent links include:
I’d previously downloaded the four Creative Commons copies of Peter’s novels from his site, and have elected to send him a Paypal donation for roughly the amount I’d have paid for these books if I’d bought them in paperback in a store. If like me you are deeply appalled that this happened to him, I would encourage you to consider sending him whatever you can spare as he gets a defense fund together.
More formal efforts to get something organized for him are underway, but in the meantime, he has a Paypal donation button here. If you use it, please also send him a separate note specifying that you’re donating to his legal fund since the button was originally set up for veterinary bills for his cats.
Thanks, folks. Let’s hope this works out for the best.
ETA 12/12/09 11:47am: Peter has posted again with an update, specifically touching on how a Michigan newspaper story on the incident is telling a version of events that contradicts what he said happened. He’s clearing up a couple other points as well, and voicing his thanks to folks who have given him support.
So yeah, after falling hard off the wagon in mid-November, I’ve had a devil of a time trying to get re-organized for getting back on again. Tonight is my attempt to get that started, ’cause this book? It ain’t writing itself.
Not much done tonight, but I did at least update my outline for Bone Walker a bit, to try to get the initial chapters to reflect what I’ve actually written and lay down the ground work for extrapolating ahead. And I threw a couple hundred words into Chapter Six. Not bad considering I was brain dead for most of the day thanks to staying home with a sore throat, and that I need to go to bed now.
Hopefully more tomorrow!
Written tonight: 213
Chapter 6 total: 882
Bone Walker total (first draft): 14,842
So I went to Third Place Books tonight for a reading and signing by the mighty , who read one of the very best little bits from Boneshaker, and who then answered a lot of questions and signed quite a lot of books. Far and away, hands down, the best question answered was that yes, there will be a sequel to Boneshaker. Which I’d actually already seen her mention on her blog/LJ posts about its progress, but I hadn’t realized it was Boneshaker‘s sequel! Anyway, it’s coming. It’s called Dreadnought. I will be waiting for it with bells on.
Also happened to see there, so I thanked her for sending the e-arc of Street Magic to me, and picked up a couple more books of hers while I was there. In print, since I’m trying to keep the Seattle-based authors on the Buy In Print list!
But on a related note, I also asked the staff about their shiny new POD machine–with, of course, an eye to whether they could print Drollerie books. I had the guy at the info desk do a couple of searches, but sadly, it looks like Drollerie books are NOT in its database. So assuming that Faerie Blood joins the Drollerie print roster, the only option will be to order it. If the situation changes I will of course let folks know.
Meanwhile I must note that the following books have now been purchased by me:
In print:
In e-book:
And, since Fictionwise is having a massive and I mean MASSIVE sale for the end of the year (to the tune of everything between 40 and 60% off, so if you haven’t bought Faerie Blood yet now would be a REALLY GOOD TIME, not like I’m hinting or anything okay yeah well I am), I’m probably about to do another e-book run. A good chunk of this will be buying stuff by Morgan Howell, because I just read Book 1 of his Queen of the Orcs trilogy and liked it quite a bit.
Until then, the yearly books purchased tally is now up to 173.
Here are a couple of quick pics I snapped today!
Last night, like I am wont to do, I was whipping through my “Anna’s Set” playlist on my iPhone, which is the various songs I can play to one degree or another on the guitar. And while there’s even stuff that isn’t Great Big Sea on that list, it was somewhere just after “Lukey” when I looked at my pick and realized it suddenly had extra points on the end. Oops!
Meanwhile, the cats have gotten very fond of parking on the windowsill in the kitchen and staring out to the walkway just behind the house. I still don’t know what they think they see back there. And by “they” I mean “Fred”, because George is clearly a slacker when it comes to being a watchcat.
