Hard at Work

As you can see in the picture I'm hard at work on the novel (that's me with the tail).

Well I will be, once the new year strikes. Things settle down for me and hopefully I can find some time to write every day again. 2,000 words a week-day, 10,000 words per week or bust. That's my resolution. If I can hold to that I'll have the first draft finished by some time in February. Right now I'm shooting for 100,000 - 120,000 words and I'm almost 10% finished.

Then with re-writes, edits and such, with any luck I can have a query together by April or May.

I'll share a few snippets from the book when there are more people visiting to share with. I'm especially happy with the chapter where the villain Otto (Octavian in his home-country) Dragomir first comes to the fore and you can get a taste for who he really is.

Book art

I love Victorian era book art. When I get this novel published I intend to do my best to have at least a dozen technical drawings and a few etchings like the examples above. When I have free moments between writing and other commitments (ha!) I'll be working on sketches, Adobe Illustrator and CGI renderings of the various inventions and steam powered contraptions which appear in my book. If there are any which I'm particularly proud of I will post them here.

In the meantime I need to get writing, so many ideas occurred to me over the break and I didn't have the opportunity to write. I need to get all these ideas down before they start to spill out of my ears.

Clockwork transformer.

Sorry, no long post today, Christmas and all that. Enjoy this movie of a pocketwatch transformer instead.



Merry Christmas. May you all wake up to your very own steampunk pocketwatches on Christmas morning.