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The Bone Palace

55555 / 100000 words. 56% done!

It was such a perfect number I had to log it.

Darling: The army returned through the East Gate just after dawn, as was traditional for victories. Historically, any action not ending in a rout and hasty flight to the city walls was considered a victory.

I may need to start using cristalia's "Things yet to cough up their names" metric. Examples include: the formal name of the East Gate, the antag's home, drag queens, and ten million streets and neighborhoods.

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I went climbing again tonight for the first time since before WorldCon. Luckily, I haven't completely turned into a puddle of goo. I even flashed a brand new problem and finally sent another one that had made me nervous before.

Happy not-quite-release day!

Good morning, internets!

I feel I must clarify a point amidst all the release-day festivities. Today is The Drowning City's release on Amazon, but as My Fabulous Editor reminded me, the official in-store release day is September 1st. So, yanno, give your local bookstore another week before you loot and pillage if they don't have a copy. However, I've heard reports now of three sightings in the wild. So instead of a release day party, we can have a release week party!

And I'm on a role with weird writer dreams lately. Last night I dreamed that Neil Gaiman had to fight the forces of evil at every WorldCon, and this year the con was thrown into disarray when evil fought dirty and kidnapped one of his daughters. (And no, the forces of evil were not played by crazed fangirls.) I encourage someone else to have the sequel dream "Amanda Palmer Strikes Back".

Book-eating ferret, or ferret-eating book?

Oscar and THE DROWNING CITY
Originally uploaded by JodiMeadows

And so jmeadows wins my photo not-a-contest. Or Oscar and Diego win--I'm not sure which. I'm not sure what they've won exactly, but I'm sure they'll give me suggestions.

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I've added a pronunciation guide to TDC's page. It's pretty sparse right now, so if there are any names that you have trouble with that I didn't list there, let me know and I'll add them.

According to B&N, the book is in every store in Austin except the one closest to me. :P

And sadly, not even the squee of release day can fight PMS. I am grumpy and sleepy and many other dwarves as well.