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Baby got bustle! (with pictures yet!)

M.K. Hobson — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:13:38 +0000

Man I have been slammed this week, which accounts for my general level of radio silence. But I’ve got so much to report! Let’s start with costuming.

1) The great sewing project has well and truly commenced, and much progress has been made. Late last week I laced up the corset I made [...]

THE NATIVE STAR: Launch Day!

M.K. Hobson — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:16:05 +0000

Oh my goodness, I can hardly believe this day is finally here. Launch day! Today my debut novel, THE NATIVE STAR, hits the shelves and the Internets nationwide. I am simply beside myself.

I couldn’t sleep last night, so I stayed up to watch my status in Amazon flip over from “coming soon” [...]

Guess what arrived today!

M.K. Hobson — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:59:04 +0000

If you guessed “a big box from Random House containing Mary’s author copies of THE NATIVE STAR” you’d be 100% correct. Ding ding ding ding! And you’d also be correct if you guessed that, upon receiving said copies, I would run immediately to the internet to post photos. You may be peering at your [...]

Summer’s here!

M.K. Hobson — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:28:54 +0000

Yes, when she’s not parading hungry friends through the house, coming in to my office with up-to-the-minute alerts on the life-and-death urgency attendant upon me enrolling her in breakdancing lessons (“EVERYONE knows how to breakdance, mom! EVERYONE BUT ME!”), or coming up with meticulously hand-drawn, color-coded, shockingly usurious price-tables meant to be applied to [...]

I have a new boyfriend

M.K. Hobson — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:59:42 +0000

And he is a cat. Yes, it turns out that Felix, the boy-cat that I rescued from Clackamette Park, is the smarmiest little dude I’ve ever met. If he were a skunk, he’d be Pepe Le Pew. See, he’s decided that he simply ADORES me. This weekend, while I was doing page proofs, he [...]

Hellzapoppin’!

M.K. Hobson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:47:45 +0000

That’s what my life feels like at the moment. A bit of Hell, lots poppin’, and an exclamation point at the end. Let’s see, what’s going on:

1) “Felix” has taken over our house. Seriously, I’ve never seen a moggy make himself more at home more quickly than Felix (we settled on “Felix” because [...]

Copyediting and Cat Rescue

M.K. Hobson — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:53:54 +0000

Well, the copyediting is mostly done. It was a quite a bit more grueling than I expected it to be. Sitting down and reading your own work that closely is like examining your face in one of those super-high-magnification mirrors. Pretty ugly. You come across some desperately infelicitous crap. But thank God, you get [...]

Nebula voting, new blog category, and copy edits

M.K. Hobson — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:31:16 +0000

… Well, maybe not in that exact order.

I received the copy edited MS of THE NATIVE STAR yesterday (my copy editor is Faren Bachelis, who is, if the red and blue scribblings on my pages are any indication, a swell person) and will be diving into that over the weekend. I am happy [...]

I can has edit letter!

M.K. Hobson — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:14:22 +0000

Aaaa! Squee!! I got my edit letter on both THE NATIVE STAR and THE DESIRED POISON THE UNNAMED SEQUEL today, from my fantastic editor Anne Groell at Bantam Spectra. I have read over the letter, and I am SO pleased with what Anne has caught. These edits are going to make both books so [...]

“The Old West meets the New Weird.”

M.K. Hobson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:48:37 +0000

You know, the process of book publication is much like walking on a lonely beach swinging a metal detector. 95% of the time you cruise along hopefully, waiting for something to turn up. 1% of the time you strike gold. And it’s that 1%, pretty much, that keeps you going. (The other 4%? Well, [...]