I’ve written about 3400 words today. Unfortunately, the first 900 were the Wrong Words, so although I’ve written that many, only 2500 of them count. This is kind of too bad, because 3400 would put me only one day behind my self-imposed Nanowrimo (Junowrimo), but since 2500 is more than I’ve written in months, I’ll take it. Sound off! What’s your Junowrimo count? 2500 / 50000 (5.00%)
Ah. I have once more totally missed the boat on World Fantasy Award nominations, for which BABA YAGA’S DAUGHTER & OTHER TALES OF THE OLD RACES is eligible as a single-author collection for the publication year 2012. Today, as it turns out, is the last day for nominations. If you happen to be a WFC member, and you care to make a last-minute rush on nominating BABA YAGA’S DAUGHTER, http://www.wfc2013.org/wfballot01.html :) I am really not very good at this awards pursuit thing, which is kind of too bad in this…
Okay, this one’s kind of a cheat, I admit it. STONEMASTER is the (working title for the) second book I’ve written for my nephew, out of a planned quadrology, and about 25 people in the world have read the first one. That’s about the number that will read the second one, too, until I acquire an agent and a book deal, but the reason for reading it was to prepare myself for writing the third book in the series. These are (from an admittedly biased point of view) pretty rollicking…
guys, guys, vonda mcintyre commented on my blog. i mean, it was on judy’s post and everything, but VONDA MCINTYRE commented on my blog! *quietly dies of squee* The Stockholm blog is getting a lot of good commentary, and over the next week or so I have some hope of bringing stuff up out of comments for wider discussion. Thank you guys all for participating. This has been a lot of fun!
By reader request, I’m posting Judith’s entire Escaping Stockholm essay as one post, too, for ease of linking and perhaps ease of discussion. I shall, however, put it all behind a cut tag straight off, in order to not re-flood the friends’ list. :) If you wish to break it out and read each section individually, here you go: Part One | Part Two | Part Three Otherwise, onward!