Detox, Day 1. Still no sun. Ugh. 60˚F. At least it isn't cold.

Today, I need to write R, S, and T for The Chartreuse Alphabet, and I have a whole bunch of line edits from Jonathan Strahan, on Agents of Dreamland, to review, and I need to email Vince Locke and Jerad Walters regarding art for Houses Under the Sea: Mythos Tales. And I'm fairly ill ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I did 1,321 words on "The Bone's Prayer." It's shaping up nicely. I'm aiming for something very compact, here. It's not a vignette, as it occurs over four or five scenes, but it's not a short story, exactly. More like a series of vignettes, but I suppose a lot of my short stories are no more than a series of vignettes. Anyway, I'm ( Read more... )

First, the fact that there is Good News should be acknowledged. My lit agent (Merrilee) and I received this e-mail late yesterday from Liz, my editor at Penguin:

Good news for you - the print order just came through and we're printing a very respectable 7,000 copies of Daughter of Hounds. (Your pre-order campaign worked beautifully, Caitlín!)Which ( Read more... )