Being a writer is an awful lot like having a lot of homework every single day of your life. Yesterday I delivered the manuscript for Lines of Departure, the sequel to Terms of Enlistment, to my editor at 47North. It’s 28 chapters and 95,000 words, but I ‘m sure those numbers will change before publication…
random bullet points.
–I’m still hunkered down in my writing dungeon here at Castle Frostbite. I have to deliver the manuscript for Lines of Departure by the 31st, so I’m busy putting the final touches on it. If you’ve sent me email and I haven’t yet responded, I’m sorry. I’ll get to the essentials like email, showers, and…
free targa top, courtesy of the fire department.
And that’s one vintage Porsche 911 less in the world: Man seriously injured after crashing Porsche. That’s in New Hampshire (albeit wayyyy north of here, in Coos County near the border with Maine), and that is was a 1967-vintage Porsche 911. One of my frivolous middle age pipe dreams is to own a restored Porsche…
lyra, age 6.
People of Earth! Your tiny Empress turns six years old today. <insert obligatory kvetching about how time flies, something something diapers blah blah before you know it &etc.> The tiny Empress has really made strides this year socially. She’s been in Kindergarten since July, and she loves it with a fierce, white-hot intensity. That kid…
monday morning post-pinkie pie party action report.
It’s Monday, and the house is QUIET. The dogs are snoozing in front of the pellet stove, which we had to turn on again last night because the temperature was predicted to dip down to freezing overnight. That marks the first day of the year when we had to run the pellet stove and the…
it’s back.
Behold: the product page for Terms of Enlistment is already back on Amazon. You’ll notice a few minor changes: the publisher, some details in the book description, and the digital list price. It’s listed as “pre-order for May 14, 2013”, but I have it on good authority that it will be available for purchase again…
“terms of enlistment” availability.
To abide by the terms of my publishing contract, I can no longer offer Terms of Enlistment directly as of today. If you want to purchase a copy, you’ll have to wait until May 14th, when 47North releases Terms of Enlistment again on Amazon. The good news is that this time, there will also be…
achievement unlocked: book deal.
Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been more quiet than usual on the blog and the TwitFaceSpaces lately. There’s a reason for that, of course, and I’m free to share it at this point. My awesome agent Evan Gregory of the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency has sold the publication rights to Terms of…
reader question: what’s wrong with gun registration?
Commenter “Jarin” has a question regarding gun registration which I answered in the comments thread, but which deserves a blog post response. Jarin asks: I don’t understand what the fuss is about registration… (no, really, I don’t get it, someone please explain it). Why should we not have registration for something as easily dangerous as…
chicken recess.
The girls have been confined to the run and their coop since last summer. With the weather finally nice, and the bugs finally out in force again, I decided they should have some recess time outside in the afternoons again. They love their freedom, risky as it is.