questions from the peanut gallery

Someone asked if I had any plans to finish CENTENARIAN and when it would be published. Yes, I do plan to finish it sometime (that would be one of the projects I’d *like* to do, but have no idea if I *will* do in 2008). I do not have a publisher for it, nor will I search for one until after the book is done*, because I am not going to commit myself to more than 2 contracted novels a year ever again**. However, when I do write more on…

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one project down…

Ok, Chance #5 is finished. This is good, because it’s the last issue Ardian’s going to be able to draw, due to him having gone off and gotten a real job with the Dabel Brothers. I wanted to be able to finish the storyline with his artwork, so I ended up changing the end of the story (which needed to be changed because the story itself had strayed quite a distance from the synopsis) so it would fit into the last issue. I think it worked out better this way,…

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Merry Christmas from a Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Wretch

Originally written for Speculation Press’s Mrs. O’Leary’s Boardinghouse anthology, which never happened. The premise of the anthology was that in turn-of-the-century Chicago, Mrs. O’Leary discovered that aliens (the sort from outer space) tended to pay their boarding fees more promptly than human boarders, and also in gold. This, then, is a story of one of Mrs. O’Leary’s boarders…

comic book writers, anyone?

Image’s Shadowline is running a create a super-heroine contest. Ted’s come up with a clever idea that we’ll probably try to punch into shape over the next few weeks (the contest closes at the end of January), as the initial submission is only one paragraph, and what the hell. :) (And no, I can’t submit Chance to them, partly because she’s the wrong kind of character and partly because Shadowline and I already discussed Chance and we couldn’t fit in each other’s boxes. I have other stuff I want to…

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