For your Monday morning listening pleasure…. (podcast interview)
(or any other time) Kristi Charish and I talk whiskey, wine, what never to do at a convention, and a new kind of Weird West on the Adventures in SF Publishing podcast
the writing life
Changing of the (Production) Guard…
The CEM for SILVER ON THE ROAD has gone back to Mr. Monti​. That means…. it’s time to go back to Yet Untitled #2 for the second pass, wherein I take an ugly rough draft and turn it into something that doesn’t make me cringe. Prepare for weeping, swearing, hand-waving, and occasional impassioned headdesking…
There is no such thing as a painless copyedit, only ones where you don’t mind bleeding.
THUD. Pending my secondary research backup getting back to me with feedback on the Latin, and with the knowledge that I’ll need to go over it one more time to make sure certain capitalizations and usages are consistent throughout…. Copyedits for SILVER ON THE ROAD are deflagged and done. All 452 pages of ’em. My brain …
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that thudding noise you heard may well have been me.
Huh. Yeah, that’s that, then. A little short and a lot messy, nothing anyone gets to see but me, but that’s Draft 0 of Devil’s West #2. ~Woo.~ [I’m actually really really excited about Draft 0, but right now I feel like I’ve been beaten with bamboo rods, so ‘woo’ is all I got] Now …
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Everybody’s working through the weekend…
Today’s WiP darling: “She had grown up in proximity to the devil; power had been as present in the air she breathed as the sulphured smoke from the blacksmith’s forge.” I may kill it later. But for now, we’re in love. :-) 2000 new words and I’m finally starting to feel, nearly 25,000 words in, …
State of the Meerkat, Five Things Weekend Roundup Version
1.  Reminder if you missed the earlier announcements: the #‎willwrite2feedothers story for 2015 went live! (but will only remain live for a limited time, so read now!) 2. A sporting thing happened here in town.  There was much swearing and sweating and triumphant heart attack honking and cheering.  If I’d had an actual emotional attachment to this …
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2015 stretching out in front of us….
And on New Year’s Day I woke up at 10 am…. (well, after getting to bed somewhere around 2am and waking up at 6am to feed and shoot the cats, so it really wasn’t THAT much sleep…) While part of me is sorry not to have been part of Party Central last night (I live …
State of the Meerkat: Preparing to Fly
Spent the weekend split between sorting and storing, and revising the novella. And poking my brain at the short story that due next month. Semi-productive, in small ways that don’t really have impressive-to-report markers.  :-( But we’re at 9 donations confirmed, and 2 more promised for #willwrite2feedothers! Four more people stepping forward to do something kind, and you …
State of the Meerkat: Waiting, and Revising
Two weeks before the move, and I’m living a weird kind of half-life. Â Ideally, this makes me focus more on the work. Â Ideally. Lunch with my agent this week, to discuss projects pending, and new. Â Which means I really need to get the existing stuff off my desk and onto someone else’s (editor and/or formatters). …
Updatery, various and sundry
My only comments about the election are that with democracy, sometimes we get the government other people deserved.  Also, that not giving up/not losing faith is the best fuck you we can give to those who want to haul us back to the 1950’s (or 1850’s). I’m off to World Fantasy today. Over the weekend, Subtenant will be cat-minding, …