And the winner of a signed copy of Marseguro for the third week of February is (drum roll, please): Keisha Willett-Patenaude, of Edson, Alberta. I know what you’re thinking: Willett? Willett? You mean you gave a signed copy to a relative? Yep. She’s my niece. But she won fair and square. At least she’s not …
Sci-Fi Fan Letter, the blog run by the staff of the World’s Biggest Bookstore and other Indigo stores in Toronto, has posted an interview with yours truly.
The flash came first. Words yesterday: 2,680Total to date: 104,998Percentage complete (100,000/120,000): 105.0/87.5 The end is so near I can taste it, but I’m not there yet, and with other things that must be done today, I think it will be tomorrow before I finish. Oh, and I’ve gone over the 500 mark in manuscript …
Well, the front page of the Weekender section, anyway, of the Regina Leader Post. A lengthy interview with me appeared today; you can read it here.
The results? Death, destruction, misery on a grand scale.Words today: 2,964Total words: 102,318Percentage complete (100,000/120,000): 102.3/85.3. I think I’ve solved my problem of yesterday and, indeed, reached the climax–or at least the start of the climax (and an explosive one it is, too–literally) today. I have also, as you’ll note, achieved my contractually specified word …
This week’s CBC Web column (the last of the series)… *** “What’s for dinner?” is a question whose answer can inspire joy, dread, or simply ennui. We all have our favorite recipes, and a few that are far from our favorites. But we get tired of even our favorite things if we get them night …
Andy King looked around at the rest of his team: Justin, looking pale and in pain, but composed; Derryl, implacable as always; Annie, mouth drawn into a tight, determined line. Words today: 2,543Total words: 99,353Percentage complete (100,000/120,000): 99.4/82.8 Didn’t get my 5,000 today, mainly because I seem to, um, be having some problem reaching my …
Classic Trek scenes set to Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit”. Jimi and Janis would both approve. (Via SF Signal.)
(Well, technically, yesterday, since it’s after midnight, but it feels like today): Karl Rasmussen had had just about enough of the fog. Words today: 2,759Total words: 96,812Percentage complete (100,000/120,000): 96.8/80.7. Not a bad count, but not enough. I had to write an entertainment story for the Leader Post and tomorrow’s CBC Web column today, then …
I was feeling a bit disappointed in my best picture of the lunar eclipse tonight (this is about halfway to totality) until I saw John Scalzi’s photo. Now I’m thinking I did all right in the absence of a tripod and with a six-year-old girl tugging on my elbow and begging me to go back …
…for this search: is science fiction books good for people results Which is weird, but strangely gratifying.
…is back! I’m plugging away hard at Terra Insegura now. I can see the end, off in the middle distance, and hope to reach it this week, do a complete rewrite next (!), and submit it by the beginning of March. Well, that’s my hope. Right now it looks like it’ll probably come out at …
