Recent posts tagged Kantō Jigoku
2009
Restocked!
As of RIGHT NOW, all my books are back in stock! Tokyo Inferno, The Four-Day Weekend and Summerworld all have signed copies and are immediately available. All books are $20 + $3 domestic S/H. Due to a screwup on my part,...
Sneak Peek Dept.
Been wanting to get your hands on Tokyo Inferno? Read the first three chapters free in PDF format, or on Scribd.(Once again, I'll have actual printed copies available for sale once I get back next week.)...
Out The Door
And so Tokyo Inferno is done and off to the printer's. At last! I won't be making the book available from the website just yet -- I want to get all that settled after I get back from AnimeFest...
The Big Cleanup
Tokyo Inferno is now as done as it gets! That is, at least until I get some word back from my selected proofreaders and editors. Once I have texts back from them, I'll be able to post my usual teaser...
Hatchet Jobs Dept.
Editing on Tokyo Inferno is moving at a decent clip, all things considered. I'm about 2/5ths of the way through the first (cleanup) pass; then I hope by before the weekend I can do the actual logic/plotting pass. And then...
Burn Baby Burn Dept.
The first draft of Tokyo Inferno is finished, at just over 100,000 words. Now comes the hard part: getting it hammered into shape and taking delivery of the finished product before AnimeFest. If I edit about five chapters a day,...
Trilogy in Three Parts Dept.
Sometime in the coming year I may end up getting back to work on a project I never finished. Tentatively titled Vajra, it was my NaNo project for 2007; it fell short of the needed word count for the month...
Eye of the Inferno Dept.
Tokyo Inferno has a slightly remodeled cover design!The old design, for reference:...
Long In The Tooth Dept.
Tokyo Inferno is now just south of 40K words. It “feels” about a little less than halfway done, so it’ll probably come in at 100K proper—about the length I’ve been aiming for with most of my work. A couple of...
Upcaught Dept.
I've reached the point on Tokyo Inferno where my edits are now caught up with where I left off with the manuscript back when I was still writing it (for NaNoWriMo). I'd decided to stop and backtrack, and do some more...
Up The Mountain Backwards Dept.
After what I can only describe as some horribly tedious rock climbing I managed to get past the rewrite that had been bugging me in Tokyo Inferno. It wasn’t even all that big a section—maybe a thousand words, tops—but how...
Trimmed Down Dept.
I've made the needed corrections to Summerworld and The Four-Day Weekend for their new 5.5 × 8.5 trim size editions. The changes were minor but there were a lot of them, collectively: a misaligned spine image here, some typographical inconsistencies...
Impress'um!
Time for some book news! New editions of both Summerworld and The Four-Day Weekend are on the way. They are in the 5.5 × 8.5 trim size, with publisher-quality paper, and with some minor textual and format corrections here and there. They...
Tokyo Inferno Update With MAJOR SPOILERS!
I haven't posted for a bit about what's happening with the new novel, Tokyo Inferno. I ought to, since I now have more good news than I can shake a fistful of sticks at. The story's back on track --...
2008
Roadmap Dept.
I took a little time today to figure out what the roadmap is for Tokyo Inferno from here on out, now that NaNoWriMo is officially over. Here's what I have so far. December: Time off. I need it badly, especially after...
Headfirst Into The Wall Dept.
I've got bad news, but maybe it's actually good news in disguise. The bad news is simple: It doesn't look like I'm going to get to 50,000 words by the end of November. I gave it a good college try,...
The Starting Gun!
On the first day of NaNoWriMo 2008, I racked up a nice, solid 2,143 words for Tokyo Inferno. My initial hesitancies about how difficult it was going to be and whether or not I would get mired down in topical...
A Glimpse of the Future
The first draft for the cover image for Tokyo Inferno is live. Check it out... Cover images, BTW, are by Heiwa4126@Flickr, and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license....
It's My Nightmare Dept.
I spent most of the last two days highballing NyQuil and wishing I didn't feel like red-hot pokers were being shoved into my eyesockets. That's right -- Con Crud (or Con Staph, ha ha), which is rather surprising since I...
