Really sorry to have missed WisCon this weekend, but I completed my fifth novel instead.
I'm still doing some cleanup, working through an edit pass, but, five months of hard work, a 110k words, and this one's done. I started thinking about this story about three years ago, started taking notes, creating characters, building worlds in 2006. There's actually one scene which started out in my journal about a year before that.
I painted this first character sketch of my protag late 2006, early 2007, along with a character interview, the end of which goes like this:
Interviewer: Thank you. This has been very helpful. How about we go for a cup of coffee when we're through here?
Character: [Smiling cheerfully] How about I kill you, consume all your bones, flesh and organs, and then go get a cup of coffee for myself with the cash in your wallet?
Interviewer: [Uncomfortable] Oh...uh...I guess I'll take that as a 'no'.
Character: [Surprised] Oh no. We can have coffee. I just thought we were throwing out some options.
Interviewer: [Wishing he hadn't brought up coffee.]
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