{"id":12374,"date":"2012-01-19T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T05:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=12374"},"modified":"2012-01-19T06:52:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T11:52:07","slug":"what-chuck-is-up-to-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/01\/19\/what-chuck-is-up-to-an-update\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chuck Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You want an update? I gotcher update right here, pal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2022 Have you told the world yet how you&#8217;re going to die? New Tumblr. Curating fears and fantasies about our deaths. Go there. Tell me about your death and how you envision it. <a title=\"http:\/\/how-you-die.tumblr.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/how-you-die.tumblr.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>THIS IS HOW YOU DIE<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. As a sidenote, received a butt-ton of entries for that &#8212; if yours hasn&#8217;t shown up, it&#8217;s possible it&#8217;s in the queue. (Also possible it was a little too out-of-theme. Some entries were fun but were more about cheating death than death itself, which felt like &#8212; well, it felt like a cheat. Go figure.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Maybe you saw yesterday, maybe you didn&#8217;t, but <strong>Abaddon Books<\/strong> has asked me back into the writer&#8217;s stable, even after that&#8230; incident with the donkey (&#8220;<a title=\"http:\/\/abaddonbooks.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/chuck-wendig-returns-to-abaddon.html\" href=\"http:\/\/abaddonbooks.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/chuck-wendig-returns-to-abaddon.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Chuck Wendig Returns To Abaddon<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&#8220;). And what will Chuck &#8212; er, me &#8212; be doing? First up is a sequel to<strong> DOUBLE DEAD<\/strong> called <strong>BAD BLOOD<\/strong>. Your favorite vampire-in-zombieland is back, this time in e-novella format. Second up is I&#8217;ll be writing a novel to spearhead a new urban fantasy series called <strong>GODS &amp; MONSTERS<\/strong>. Which pretty much tells you all you need to know about that. Thanks to Abaddon for inviting me back!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Oh, one other tidbit there from that blog post &#8212; <strong>DOUBLE DEAD<\/strong> was the fastest-selling Abaddon title of 2011? Mine is the face of joy at news like that. Very exciting stuff.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 New &#8220;Penmonkey Incitement&#8221; count &#8212; we&#8217;re up to 737. Which means we passed both the 650 and 700 marks, which means it&#8217;s time to give out <em>two more postcards<\/em> and <em>one more t-shirt<\/em>. (More information on the Penmonkey Incitement promotion <a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/07\/04\/the-penmonkey-incitement\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/07\/04\/the-penmonkey-incitement\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>right here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.) I&#8217;ll pick in the next 24 hours and email folks who won &#8212; so, if you&#8217;re looking for a shot to nab a free postcard or t-shirt, remember to procure a copy of <a title=\"COAFPM\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/books-for-sale\/confessions-of-a-freelance-penmonkey\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>COAFPM<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and be sure to let me know about it at terribleminds at gmail dot com.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>GIMME SHELTER<\/strong>, new zombie anthology. I&#8217;ve a tale in there, along with great stories by Tee Morris, Mur Lafferty, Filamena Young, Phillipa Ballentine, David Hill, Pete Woodworth, and more. <a title=\"http:\/\/galileogames.com\/gimme-shelter\/\" href=\"http:\/\/galileogames.com\/gimme-shelter\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Out now<\/strong><\/span><\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Slowly but surely putting together that <strong>terribleminds<\/strong> Kickstarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Those asking about the next Atlanta Burns book, <strong>BAIT DOG<\/strong>? I&#8217;m noodling making it a full novel instead of a novella. Feels like there&#8217;s so much more to it than the novella I&#8217;ve written, so I might blow it out and go bigger with it. Keep your grapes peeled. <em>Ohhh<\/em>, and speaking of Atlanta Burns, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/books-for-sale\/shotgun-gravy-ab1\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/books-for-sale\/shotgun-gravy-ab1\/\">SHOTGUN GRAVY<\/a><\/strong><\/span> is now $0.99 at Amazon and B&amp;N.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Got edits back on the next Miriam Black book, <strong>MOCKINGBIRD<\/strong>. Eeee! And ow! And eeee! And ow!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Looking for <strong>DINOCALYPSE NOW<\/strong> news? Done by the end of the month. Ish. Easily one of the most challenging things I&#8217;ve ever written. Worth it, I hope. But a serious challenge. Go ahead: ask me why!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 My &#8220;25 Things Writers Should Stop Doing&#8221; post went very, very viral. Like a rampant case of chlamydia it spread like fire across the writer&#8217;s net &#8212; in two weeks it&#8217;s become the biggest post <em>ever<\/em> here, and led to this site easily blowing up the previous record for views in a day, week, and month. Glad everybody liked it, and thanks everybody for spreading it around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Your turn. What are <em>you<\/em> up to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you saw yesterday, maybe you didn&#8217;t, but Abaddon Books has asked me back into the writer&#8217;s stable, even after that&#8230; incident with the donkey (&#8220;Chuck Wendig Returns To Abaddon&#8221;). And what will Chuck &#8212; er, me &#8212; be doing? 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