Updatery stuff...

[mckitterick]

This weekend, I:

. Fixed the radiator leak under the Saab's hood.
. Finally washed that poor, filthy car.
. Fixed another leak, this one in my toilet.
. Installed a new seal under my garage door.
. Started installing insulation on said door.
. Put away the garage dehumidifier/AC and replaced it with the regular dehumidifier.
. Oh, and I HAD THE RELEASE EVENT FOR MY DEBUT NOVEL!


It's a book! Holding the one and only existing hardcover at the release event.


Audience at the book-launch. That's SF Grand Master James Gunn on the left side, for whom I wrote this book in the first place. Thanks for coming, everyone!


Reading at the book launch in Jayhawk Ink, at the University of Kansas student union, in Lawrence, Kansas, on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010.


My editor, Eric T. Reynolds, snapped this shot in front of the Jayhawk Ink bookstore, a few days before the official release event.


TRANSCENDENCE release after-party, with MellyStu being trouble. Note how Daruma still has only one colored-in eye... that was about to change.


TRANSCENDENCE among some of my short stuff, on my bookshelves, at the release party.


Daruma finally sees TRANSCENCENCE published! An event 10 years in the making.
Click the photo to open a full-size image of the complete hardcover dustjacket. Art by Greg Martin, cover design by Melissa Lytton.

If you want to check out the book, click here to read sample chapters and stuff. Now available at fine bookstores and online dealers such as Amazon (hardcover and trade paper) and Powell's (trade paper only). Or order directly from the publisher at a nice discount with free shipping: Hadley Rille Books.

I cannot begin to describe how pleased I am. *beam*

Here's wishing you a fine day. Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who attended the reading, signing, and party. You made it an Event of Awesomeness™.

Chris

Comments

[pointoforigin.livejournal.com]

You look very proud--and somehow I don't think it's because you fixed the toilet. : D I'm so happy that lots of people came. And I bet that your book is EVEN BETTER than most of the crap that gets published! (Very old in-joke . . . the highest accolade our one-time writers group could have bestowed.) Wish I were there to buy you a pitcher of the finest margaritas. I guess a virtual pitcher would be better for your heightened fitness, anyway. So I'm toasting you in absentia.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Mike came up for the event, so we had half of the ol' crew! I thought of you often that night; thank you so much for your encouragement and words of wisdom and friendship lo these many years.

Hugs!
Chris