Another 48 Hours
It is official. I am addicted to 48 Hours mysteries. Especially since great swaths of them are up on Hulu and I can watch them while I work.
When I'm not watching 48 Hours you might find me at SDCC, in the following places:
Thursday, July 23
Escapist Fantasy Room 10, 10-11 am
Panelists: Juliet Blackwell (SECOND HAND SPIRITS); Marjorie Liu (DARKNESS CALLS); Jackie Kessler & Caitlin Kittredge (BLACK & WHITE); Diana Rowland (MARK OF THE DEMON); Sina Grace (CEDRIC HOLLOWS IN DIAL M for MAGIC); Seanan McGuire (ROSEMARY AND RUE); and Harry Connolly (CHILD OF FIRE).
Moderator: Maryelizabeth Hart, Mysterious Galaxy
Saturday, July 25
Random House booth, #1128 3:30-4:30 pm
Signing FREE COPIES of Black and White with Jackie Kessler (and anything else of mine you bring along, too, though it's not there for free...I'm not enforcing a superheroes-only rule.)
Sadly everything else I'm up to is meetings or private offsite events...but if you see me, talk to me. It's what I'm there for.
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I hit a snag on "Rusty Cage" and I need to take a step back and rethink. Here's the rub--I've been quietly working on a historical fantasy proposal for a couple of months, and I've been using shorts to introduce various core aspects of the world. "Perdition", which is in Mammoth Book of Sparklepires Vampire Romance 2 is, quite obviously, vampires. I want "Rusty Cage" to be for shapeshifters, but I'm having a hard time reconciling all of the bits and bobs into a whole story. Also, the time period jumps ahead about fifty years, from Arizona Territory to Depression-era Tennessee.
My hope is that if and when the proposal is complete and sold, I can reprint "Perdition", "Rusty Cage" and a third story which introduces the sort-of-but-not-really demonic forces of the world into a sort of primer for the first novel, which I've been calling Haunted. Haunted takes place in postwar Japan, but the bones of the plot start much, much earlier.
Anyway, I'm having a think and in the meantime I'm having a fine old time playing with a project that is in no way speculative fiction. Yup, you heard me...I have crossed over into a world with absolutely no fairies, werewolves or vampires (sparkling or otherwise). Idle hands and idle minds and all that.
I should do some laundry and start packing for San Diego, so I'm off.
Originally published at Caitlin Kittredge.
When I'm not watching 48 Hours you might find me at SDCC, in the following places:
Thursday, July 23
Escapist Fantasy Room 10, 10-11 am
Panelists: Juliet Blackwell (SECOND HAND SPIRITS); Marjorie Liu (DARKNESS CALLS); Jackie Kessler & Caitlin Kittredge (BLACK & WHITE); Diana Rowland (MARK OF THE DEMON); Sina Grace (CEDRIC HOLLOWS IN DIAL M for MAGIC); Seanan McGuire (ROSEMARY AND RUE); and Harry Connolly (CHILD OF FIRE).
Moderator: Maryelizabeth Hart, Mysterious Galaxy
Saturday, July 25
Random House booth, #1128 3:30-4:30 pm
Signing FREE COPIES of Black and White with Jackie Kessler (and anything else of mine you bring along, too, though it's not there for free...I'm not enforcing a superheroes-only rule.)
Sadly everything else I'm up to is meetings or private offsite events...but if you see me, talk to me. It's what I'm there for.
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I hit a snag on "Rusty Cage" and I need to take a step back and rethink. Here's the rub--I've been quietly working on a historical fantasy proposal for a couple of months, and I've been using shorts to introduce various core aspects of the world. "Perdition", which is in Mammoth Book of Sparklepires Vampire Romance 2 is, quite obviously, vampires. I want "Rusty Cage" to be for shapeshifters, but I'm having a hard time reconciling all of the bits and bobs into a whole story. Also, the time period jumps ahead about fifty years, from Arizona Territory to Depression-era Tennessee.
My hope is that if and when the proposal is complete and sold, I can reprint "Perdition", "Rusty Cage" and a third story which introduces the sort-of-but-not-really demonic forces of the world into a sort of primer for the first novel, which I've been calling Haunted. Haunted takes place in postwar Japan, but the bones of the plot start much, much earlier.
Anyway, I'm having a think and in the meantime I'm having a fine old time playing with a project that is in no way speculative fiction. Yup, you heard me...I have crossed over into a world with absolutely no fairies, werewolves or vampires (sparkling or otherwise). Idle hands and idle minds and all that.
I should do some laundry and start packing for San Diego, so I'm off.
Originally published at Caitlin Kittredge.