First, Kirkus Reviews gave Trafalgar & Boone a glowing review. Nothing but praise, no need to pick and choose the nice bits. It was ALL nice bits. Then I noticed they gave it a star. Then they decided to include it in their printed magazine (the 8/15 issue, if anyone is a subscriber). I thought that was the extent of it, but just today I discovered ( Read more... )

It's not going to be too hard to fill the back cover of Book 2! ;)

Praise for The Virtuous Feats of the Indomitable Miss Trafalgar & the Erudite Lady Boone:"An imaginatively wrought, steampunk-influenced feminist adventure." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review ( Read more... )

Well. THIS happened ( Read more... )

Readers! If you've read Trafalgar & Boone (the novel, not the short stories) and want your review of it to be quoted on the hardback cover, let me know today! Time is of the essence on this one!

This isn't the finished artwork, just a sneak peek, but I'm passing the sneak peek on to you guys! This icon is very, very similar to how Trafalgar and Boone will appear on the cover of their first book. Very exciting! I loves it, I do.

And that's the first draft of the Trafalgar & Boone novel! I definitely suspect there will be future adventures with these two. There's just so much more for them to do! The word count of this draft is 80,628, which is 5,000 more than the combined word count of the T&B short stories I've already written. So that's a bonus. ;D ( Read more... )

Only the epilogue remains!

Chapter Nineteen
( Trafalgar and Boone, Chapter Nineteen )

3200 words already today! \o/ We're getting close to the end of the book now!

Chapter Eighteen
( Trafalgar and Boone, Chapter Eighteen )

Over 70,000 words and counting! :D

Chapter Seventeen
( Trafalgar and Boone, Chapter Seventeen )

Moving right along! 67,937 words total.

Chapter Sixteen
( Trafalgar and Boone, Chapter Sixteen )