Joanne Anderton

Or, they will be.

I’m peering through my sore-throat, headache-rattled, icky-feeling haze to point to THIS over at Angry Robot Books.

That’s me they’re talking about. And those are my books.

Debris will be published by Angry Robot Books in 2011, with Suited following in 2012. Wanna say WOOT with me? WOOT!

I’ve been calling these books ‘dark-fantasy/steampunk-ish’. Angry [...]

That was a lovely break, wasn’t it?

Yesterday I went through my notes for this series, right from the research I did at the very beginning. I wanted to make sure that things were still on track, that even though the story has changed a lot from those preliminary ideas I am still maintaining the integrity [...]

Draft the second is officially DONE. Completed. OVER.

New word count comes in at 116,600 up from 113,100. But, the most telling part? I cut (ready for this?) almost 20,000 words of crap. So that means that I also wrote 23,000 new words of not crap. Oh, how I hope they’re not crap.

This is actually a [...]

Well, there we go, first draft done.

Just over 113,000 words in the end. This will grow in the next draft, and probably significantly. This draft suffers from a terrible lack of description. Even I don’t know what a few of the characters look like. And there are at least two vitally important plot points that [...]

Novel draft = brain mush.

106k and it’s all happening. Not too long now.

See you on the other side.