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Thud: The Robot Monuments
March 7, 2016 Progress Notes:
The Robot Monuments
Words today: 100 back on Friday, 300 today.
Words total: 15,000.
Reason for stopping: Still sick and I'm going to fall over now.
Darling du Jour: N/A.
Research Roundup: Crash course on the nuances of Shinto; traditional Japanese breakfasts.
Books in progress: Amanda Sun, Heir to the Sky; Lena ( Read more... ) -
Thud: The Robot Monuments
March 3, 2016 Progress Notes:
The Robot Monuments
Words today: 500.
Words total: 14,600.
Reason for stopping: Really feverish all of a sudden.
Darling du Jour: N/A.
Research Roundup: N/A
Books in progress: Amanda Sun, Heir to the Sky; Lena Coakley, Worlds of Ink and Shadow.
My preferred activity today would have been to eat chocolate and have ( Read more... ) -
Thud: The Robot Monuments
March 2, 2016 Progress Notes:
The Robot Monuments
Words today: 600.
Words total: 14,100.
Reason for stopping: Out to writer bar night this evening, which means it's time to get ready.
Darling du Jour: N/A.
Research Roundup: Inheritance discrimination and the status of illegitimate children in Japan.
Books in progress: Amanda Sun, Heir to the ( Read more... ) -
Thud: The Robot Monuments
February 24, 2016 Progress Notes:
The Robot Monuments
Words today: 400.
Words total: 13,500.
Reason for stopping: Went on and off on this tonight, but now it is time for bed.
Darling du Jour: Cranes and scaffolds sprout from the edge like metal bandages, holding back dirt, rubble, and slime from the chaotic crater floor.
Research Roundup: The ( Read more... ) -
Thud: The Robot Monuments
February 23, 2016 Progress Notes:
The Robot Monuments
Words today: 400.
Words total: 13,100.
Reason for stopping: Pressure headache and my brain is all woooo.
Darling du Jour: "Hakubi Line with stops at Hōki-Mizoguchi, Kishimoto, and Hōki-Daisen," an entirely different mechanical voice intones, and the doors hang open, waiting for schoolgirls or ( Read more... ) -
Thud: The Robot Monuments
February 18, 2016 Progress Notes:
The Robot Monuments
Words today: 500.
Words total: 12,700.
Reason for stopping: Time to start dinner; company coming over tonight.
Darling du Jour: A pair of single beds, the right tight-sheeted, the left a rumpled curve of shed blanket-cocoon; a pair of desks, the right empty, polished wood and the left a riot ( Read more... ) -
Thud: The Robot Monuments
February 9, 2016 Progress Notes:
The Robot Monuments
Words today: 1,200.
Words total: 12,200.
Reason for stopping: Time to start dinner.
Darling du Jour: It's been a year since I started balancing. None of it feels natural anymore: leaned against the grey wind on the ten-block walk to school, sleeping against the angle of ghost-elbows in a ( Read more... ) -
AN INHERITANCE OF ASHES is an OLA Best Bets book!
Spoilers in the title, guys! I’m just back from an afternoon signing at the OLA Super Conference and, since it’s official:
An Inheritance of Ashes has been named one of the Ontario Library Association’s 2015 Best Bets selections.
Here is a picture with its nice new sticker and everything.
So since it's official: AN INHERITANCE OF ASHES is ( Read more... ) -
OLA and a wise reading!
It’s finally snowing, and I’ve spent my 2016 so far bunkered down and happily drafting new work, but I’ll be showing my face in a few places this January (and early February!):
I’ll be at this year’s OLA Super Conference, signing copies of An Inheritance of Ashes at the Scholastic Canada booth (#211!) at 2pm on Friday, January 29th, 2016. Looking ( Read more... ) -
A good start to the New Year!
Quite to my surprise, I got home this afternoon to find out that An Inheritance of Ashes has been shortlisted for the 2015 Cybils Awards, in the Speculative Fiction category - alongside some seriously great books (my to-read list just grew).
The jury will read through the finalists and announce a winner mid-February. Congrats to all the finalists ( Read more... )