Cherie Priest's Blog: It's awards season, so here comes the shameless self-promotion, page 122

Before metrics: Tonight, at the University District bookstore here in Seattle, Caitlin Kittredge shall present words and signings and all manner of author miscellany. Seven o'clock. Be there or … well. Don't, I guess. But I'll be there, and most of the usual suspects will as well.

Right. Moving on then.

Here's today's progress on the alternate-history battlefield adventure about a widowed nurse from a Confederate hospital aboard a west-bound train pulled by a Union war engine — now with military

Upcoming with the Gang: Team Seattle is off to Salem OR by way of Portland to join Devon Monk for mass signing at Escape Fiction in Salem [3240 Triangle Dr SE, Salem, OR 97302 (503) 588-5865:] from Noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 18th. Come on by! We will have fun; and we always do our best to be clever and informative … or at the very least, entertaining.

New Coilhouse is in production: And I, for one, could not be happier. It's a damn fine publication — beautiful and smart, and fierce.

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I've had a Monday. It has been a Monday wherein many things got done, none of them writing. I spent the morning on day-job work (as per usual), then went to Petco for fish supplies, went to (stores redacted) to do some birthday shopping for a couple of relatives, hit up Trader Joe's for some desperately needed groceries, went to the postal store and bought shipping materials, packed up and shipped off a couple of birthday packages, took out a couple loads of trash, changed the fish tank while d

So … I haven't gotten any writing done this weekend, but I have an excellent excuse. See, for awhile now I've been talking about throwing a website up for the alternate-history universe in which my upcoming book Boneshaker is set. This universe also holds a novelette that's up for free and immediate reading over on Subterranean Press's website, as well as an upcoming novella through that same publisher (Clementine) and the upcoming novel upon which I ought to be writing right now (Dreadnought).

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Here's today's progress on the alternate-history battlefield adventure about a widowed nurse from a Confederate hospital aboard a west-bound train pulled by a Union war engine — now with military intrigue, steampunk Texas rangers, undead political separatists, murderous plots, bushwhackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:

Project: Dreadnought

New Words: 3413 (not bad)

Present Total Word Count: 122,181 words

Goal: 140,000 words

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Did day-job work; cle

What a most excellent day! Not from a word-progress standpoint, though that's been respectable, if not grandiose; but there was good mail, and money, and helpful information, and professional invitations too.

To give you the highlights reel: (a). I've just found out I'll be attending the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association trade show in Portland come September, which is sure to be a hoot. I've done three of these trade shows in the past, and it's always an awesome, productive time surroun

Because every day can't be a zombie walk picture day.

Here's today's progress on the alternate-history battlefield adventure about a widowed nurse from a Confederate hospital aboard a west-bound train pulled by a Union war engine — now with military intrigue, steampunk Texas rangers, undead political separatists, murderous plots, bushwhackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:

Project: Dreadnought

New Words: 5192 (SWEET)

Present Total Word Count: 116,377 words

Goal: 140,000 words

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Here's today's progress on the alternate-history battlefield adventure about a widowed nurse from a Confederate hospital aboard a west-bound train pulled by a Union war engine — now with military intrigue, steampunk Texas rangers, undead political separatists, murderous plots, bushwhackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem:

Project: Dreadnought

New Words: 2717 (meh)

Present Total Word Count: 111,185 words

Goal: 140,000 words

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Did day-job work; partial

Long story short — we started out like this (click to view larger):

And ended up like this (click to view larger):

And if you'd like to see more pictures from the big Fremont Zombie Walk '09, then you should click the little jump below and oh boy howdy, shall you have more gruesome pictures. This has already cost me about half a dozen followers of this mirror-blog on LiveJournal, but "Go for broke!" That's what I say.

Click HERE for MAYHEM AND GORE »

We're not unreasonable.