I hit the 3K word goal for the day with only 14 outline points yet to go (takes me about one day per point.) Set to do the seance scene next…. Current total word count on the WIP: 67,393. Thinking it will round out about 85,000-90,000 instead of 100K, but that’s all right.

#FiMyDaNo
Also, don’t forget to check the blog for Daily Dogs and other stuff!

Mr. Kat is returning from the funeral today and work continues here, a bit slowly, but apace. Here is the current count as I start in on creating more:
Word count added on 12/8: 2,744
Total word count of WIP at end of 12/8: 58,759

Total words generated including false starts and outlines: 62,781
Deadline is technically December 31, 2012, but it’s likely no one will see it before January 2, 2013, because… well who’s going to be in the office after Noon on New Year’s Eve?

And yes, it’s cold and raining here in Seattle. Bella gets dried off after every walk:

Stay warm and dry everyone.

This morning my wonderfully curmudgeonly father-in-law, Arthur Carpenter, passed away. He will be much missed.

I continue on the path to deadline. Today was a pretty good one in spite of errands, chores, bills, and a very needy dog who whined most of the afternoon. But I still managed to stay on track and hit my word goal plus a little.

Picometer says:
(if you can’t read this, Picometer is undergoing updates.)

Today’s wordcount: 3,249
Total wordcount to date on Possession (Greywalker #8): 43,301
Goal for November: 50,000
Goal for Manuscript: 100,000
Deadline: December 31, 2012

Happening in the Ms: Carlos–everyone’s favorite nasty bit of vampire–turns up!

Check further progress on the WIP and silly things like The Daily Dog on the Blog.

Thankful. Yes. Thankful for the family–that loves me, even as wide-spread and crazy as we all are. Thankful for the friends–who join in the shenanigans or shake their heads in mock-despair, yet keep on asking me back to dinners and parties. Thankful for my colleagues, co-workers, agents, editors, and Cie–who support and help my career and work with grace and enthusiasm. Thankful for my fans, booksellers, reviewers, readers, and librarians–who give me cause to keep on writing, who spread the joy of books whether they are mine or not. Thankful for stories, for books, for the freedom to write, to speak, to think, to share, to read, to create, to argue, to grow. Thankful for technology that connects me to a world broad and wonderful as well as diverse, challenging, and terrifying.

Thankful. Yes.

P.S.
Bella says “It’s all about the stuffing!”

In honor of all the Black Friday shopping I won’t be doing, but hope you will… I give you Hyperbole and a Half (I love her cartoon/blog):

Yes, buy books, support authors, support local book shops, support literacy, support your imagination. Or write some books–that’ll be good too.

And don’t forget to check my blog for Daily Dogs and other updates you can comment on (no comments here.)

Apparently my book made it to #3 on the Locus Hardcover Bestseller list for November. And in amazing company: George R. R. Martin, Terry Brooks, my friend Jim Hines, Terry Pratchett, Orson Scott Card, Richard Kadrey, Kelly Armstrong, Laurel K. Hamilton, and my shelf-mate John Ringo (we’re shelved side-by-side.) I’ve never made this list before that I can recall and I am having a hard time expressing how wonderful this is to me. This only happens because of fans like you. Thanks.

I’ve got a bunch of new covers to show you guys! (as always, click on the images to see larger sizes.)

First the cover for the Murder and Mayhem in Muskego anthology which will be for sale at the event this weekend, and online soon after (ordering info will be up when I get it.) Profits go to benefit the Muskego Public Library in Muskego WI.

Murder and Mayhem in Muskego anthology cover, November 2012

Next, the paperback for Seawitch has got a cover–pretty much like the hardcover, but notice the nifty new quote at the bottom!

Seawitch US paperback cover, July 2013

And it’s finally official: the cover for Greywalker #8–POSSESSION–which will be out August 6, 2013:

Possession US hardcover, August 2013

Nice stuff! (and don’t forget that cover from earlier in the week for Clockwork Fairy Tales! On a roll here!) These aren’t up in the gallery nor do they have information pages, but I’ll get that done as soon as I can.

Look what got posted today:
(click for full size)
And look whose name made it to the cover between Jay Lake and K. W. Jeter! Oh. My. DoG! I’m so excited I could die! US release is June 4 2013 through Roc books. And you can preorder it at Barnes and Noble and all those kinds of places! Squeeeeee!

I’m still in Toronto for a few more days, but I ran across something I wanted to talk about. The whole post and link is at my blog along with Daily Dogs, so please visit to view the rest and to comment:

“Quality matters more than ever.”– M.J. Rose on e-book pricing and writing from “Are eBooks Too Cheap” at the Huffington Post.

Now that we’ve survived the initial euphoric rush of the new market, we come back to the essentials: you must offer something of value not merely of price. If you want to survive the market as a professional, you have to produce quality and then price it such that you make enough money to pay your for your efforts and costs or this is just another expensive hobby….Read the rest on my blog.