{"id":32633,"date":"2018-08-06T10:11:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=32633"},"modified":"2022-01-11T19:17:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:17:36","slug":"macro-monday-continues-its-fond-reminiscing-of-the-pacific-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2018\/08\/06\/macro-monday-continues-its-fond-reminiscing-of-the-pacific-northwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Macro Monday Continues Its Fond Reminiscing Of The Pacific Northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, that header image is of a rose with a fly on it, and that has very little to do with the Pacific Northwest but SHADDAP I like it. I don’t know why I like it. Something something contrast, something something irony, or maybe I just really like that Seal song, A KISS FROM A FLY ON A ROSE or whatever.<\/p>\n

More PNW photos at the base of this post, if you care to bask in them.<\/p>\n

Let’s see, what’s up with me?<\/p>\n

I did another editorial pass on WANDERERS<\/strong> — it’s a book that, blessedly, is getting a lot of love from inside the publisher, and my last developmental and copy-edit came from Del Rey. Now it’s gone on to PRH readers, and so they wanted to do another pass on it to tighten it — not the plot, meaning, not a developmental edit, but a line edit that really cinches all the laces and tugs all the knots, in part because OKAY HEY I REALLY LOVE A GOOD METAPHOR, OKAY, and if I like one metaphor, you can damn sure believe I like TWO metaphors, and blessedly, my editor went in with a flashing, gleaming straight razor to cut those extraneous threads.<\/p>\n

Thank fuck for editors, is what I’m saying. They have saved my bacon time and time again. Never let me get so big-headed that I believe editors are someone superfluous. Not every editor is amazing, to be clear, but when they’re good, they’re\u00a0great<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Expecting a cover release soon for that book, bee tee dubs.<\/p>\n

Oh and don’t worry, the book is still like, 270-some-thousand-words ha ha ha ohh no what have I done oh god oh shit. Ahem.<\/p>\n

What else?<\/p>\n

Working on a new novella —\u00a0Interlude: The Tanager<\/strong>\u00a0— for an upcoming collection with Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson. Our last one, Three Slices<\/a>, has done very well (in no small part because Kevin is amazing and has a wealth of wonderful fans). That collection features an interstitial Miriam Black story set between\u00a0The Cormorant<\/strong> and\u00a0Thunderbird<\/strong>, and now this new collection\u00a0Death & Honey<\/strong>, will have an interstitial Wren-focused story set between\u00a0The Raptor & The Wren<\/strong> and\u00a0Vultures<\/strong>.\u00a0Vultures<\/strong>, the sixth and final book, comes out in January — and\u00a0D&H<\/strong> will drop in Feb-Mar. Delilah, also one of my favorite writers, will also contribute to D&H, and may I just take a special moment to say if you need more fun in your life and you have not yet read Kill The Farm Boy,\u00a0get on it\u00a0<\/em>(print<\/a> | ebook<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I also finished outlines for a five-issue [REDACTED<\/strong>] comic book series.<\/p>\n

Hopefully I can talk more about that soon.<\/p>\n

Maybe at NYCC, which I’m going to!<\/p>\n

Also<\/em>, I’ll be in NYC this coming weekend —<\/p>\n

At the Writer’s Digest Conference<\/a>!<\/p>\n

My schedule:<\/p>\n