Clockwork Phoenix is now an ebook!

Mike Allen (time_shark) has done yeoman work, converting the first volume of the Clockwork Phoenix anthology series to ebook format. This is, you may recall, the home of "A Mask of Flesh," which I keep wanting to call "one of my Mesoamerican fantasy stories" until I remember that I haven't actually gotten any of the other ones in shape to submit anywhere, let alone publish.

The rest of the series (CP, not those stories -- though maybe them, too) will follow in time, but for now you can get the first volume on the Kindle. If you prefer pixels to dead trees, head on over and take a look!

Yuletide fic is a go! Now where is it going . . . .?

I've finally started on my Yuletide fic -- started properly, I mean, and not just the fifty words I slapped down a few days ago because I felt like I really ought to have made more progress by now. Found the right tone for the story today, and at least some of the right format; I say "some of" because this is a decidedly odd story, from a decidedly odd source, and it remains to be seen whether the approach I'm taking will sustain the thousand-word minimum for Yuletide. Possibly not, in which case I'll need to find something else to slide into the break-points that have been appearing along the way. But I'm not yet sure what that should be.

Structure is so often the kicker, ain't it? I've started a treat, too, because I got mugged by an idea for something else, and that one mostly needs me to figure out what beats have to happen, in what order. Now that my subconscious has chewed on my assignment enough to start swallowing some of it (ew -- not the best metaphor ever), the treat is going on the back-burner, but I think both of them are going to turn out very well, in very different ways.