Kat Richardson

Bella Owns the House

kat — Sat, 11 May 2013 04:08:19 +0000

And plainly she approves, even if her humans are discussing mundane and boring things, like shower curtains.
Click to see the video on YouTube.

Home at Last!

kat — Thu, 09 May 2013 05:47:38 +0000

Guess what these are…

Yup, house keys! I’m ecstatic!

Tell a Story Day: Part 21

kat — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:47:17 +0000

And now more of the amazing and amusing Tell a Story Day! I’m posting part 21 on the blog, but the story started April 15th on M. Todd Gallowglas’s site with Part 1 and has continued on up to Part 20 on Christopher Kellen’s site. You can see all the parts and links in order on Genre Underground’s Tell a Story Day event post. The story will wrap up on April 27th, so… keep reading and be sure to take a ramble around the other sites to see what else those writers are up to.

And now… Part 21:

As the bow sang and the arrow leapt free of the string, rushing to pierce the troll’s eye, a hand swept from down from the upper gantries of Assembly…

Read the rest on the blog!

Next, Please

kat — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:58:52 +0000

Finished the proofs on Possession today, scanned, and emailed them back to the Penguins. Done with that book for a while. Now, on to the next one. This time: with dragon!

Tell A Story Day: Part 13

kat — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:00:50 +0000

Today I’ve been invited to take part in Tell A Story Day with the Genre Underground–a group of (mostly) independent writers who’ve banded together to help readers find new stories. So, what is “Tell a Story Day”? Well, it’s an experiment based loosely on the Writer Under Glass project some of us participated in at World Con in Chicago last year: A group of authors create a story serially with no idea where the happy insanity will lead. Two authors will be adding to the story each day with their own creative spin, picking up where the previous author left off. Today I get to continue on with the story below as the mighty thirteenth contributing author (Yay 13!). I’ll also be posting another piece next week, so… stay tuned!

Read Part 13 at the blog.

Proof of Proofs

kat — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:42:44 +0000

I finally have my galley proofs of POSSESSION in my hot little fists. Due back April 23, so… excuse me while I’m absent.

Bad Days Need Dogs

kat — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:11:43 +0000

Today needs a silly dog photo:

Bella is a Uni-a-dog!

Trolling for Polling

kat — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:38:51 +0000

It’s time for the Locus Awards Poll and you–yes you!–can vote to get your favorite SF and F stories on the list! I’d love to be there…. (hint!)
Go vote!

Also, consider signing the petition to get a memorial plague honoring Isaac Asimov erected in Philadelphia! Intrigued? Click the link!

They Sneak Up On Me In My Sleep

kat — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:03:04 +0000

I’ve only recently finished Copyedits on Greywalker #8 and Greywalker #9 is already pestering me to start working on it. But I don’t have the whole story yet, just some nifty bits and pieces. Late Thursday night I realized I’d left an open hook in the very first book that I can use to connect this book right back to the beginning! Oh subconscious brain, you are so clever sometimes! (Now if you would just work out the rest of the plot for me, like, right now, please.)

Well… That’s Done (mostly)

kat — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:30:19 +0000

I have completed the technical review of the copyedit on Possession. I still need to fix a timeline problem–minor, but persistent throughout the manuscript–and write the acknowledgments and author’s notes, but I’m damn-near done! (Thank the gods!) And I must say that the second half was harder and slower because the Word format with Track Changes on and Comments all visible hogs RAM like no one’s business so inputting any change or comment reply is an exercise in frustration and even scrolling up and down is laggy (No comments on my computer, please–it’s a high-end Mac and it runs just fine, thank you.) It’s a terrible system, but it’s the “industry standard.” Alas.