the league of reluctant adults

We Leaguers are an industrious if pervy lot. And occasionally, one of us hits pay dirt. In this case, a huge SHOUT OUT to Leaguer Cherie Priest, the High-Priestess of Steampunk who yesterday announced her movie deal of Boneshaker . Just three weeks ago she was in Denver signing at the Broadway Book Mall. Soon, with luck and our tarnished blessings, she'll be in the position to greet us when we arrive at the gilded gates of her 1% estate, hats in hand, and she'll announce: "Release the hounds." With the beginning of December comes the end of NaNoWriMo. How did you all do? I made my goal, which was to finish the first draft of a work in progress. A very ugly baby to be sure. But at least I have something to vivisect and reattach parts to. As much as we love NaNoWriMo, good intentions are not enough. They need your help, as in cashola. So dig out those spare coins rattling in your tattered pocket and send them here to keep the NaNoWriMo furnace stoked until 2012.

Items you may or may not know yet: Jackie Kessler Enters The Buffyverse The February edition of "MySpace Dark Horse Presents” will introduce a new writer to the comic book field, dark fantasy/supernatural romance author Jackie Kessler, who will pen a short "Tales of the Vampires" episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8" titled "Carpe Noctem." Kessler, whose novels include "Hell's Bells,""Black and White," and several Young Adult titles under the name Jackie Morse Kessler, is joined on the comic by artist Paul Lee. * * * * Winners of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association's 2010 Book Awards, which were selected from more than 200 nominated titles by Northwest authors and published in 2009, are: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the NorthwestJack Nisbet (Sasquatch Books) Boneshaker ...

Hello there, league and followers-of-league. My name is Cherie Priest and I'm a new inductee into this hallowed space (is it hallowed, really? I suspect otherwise). I'm a writer originally hailing from Florida, but more recently hailing from Tennessee, and then more recently still living in Seattle, Washington -- which is how I know Mark Henry, who roped me into ... well ... this . Not that I'm complaining -- far from it. I'm a blogging fool, I am, and I'm mostly game for any further excuse to natter on in front of God and everybody about almost anything. So I send up my thanks to Mark for inviting me, and the rest of the League for having me. If you still have no clue who I am and you demand further information, then I send you over to my personal webpage where you can rifle through my archives, my reviews, my biography and bibliography, or anything else that strikes your fancy. [:: air kisses to all ::]