Tag Archives: The Kairos Mechanism
At Long Last, It’s Time: Introducing The Illustrated Kairos Mechanism
It was the final piece of my original plan for The Kairos Mechanism: a digital edition illustrated by reader artists, one per chapter, each of whom would be paid for his or her work. I was excited about the whole project, but this particular piece–the illustrated edition–was the most special piece of all. Everybody who got involved with The Kairos Mechanism was excited about the illustrated edition. Several of the co-conspirators donated their (meager) compensation in order to bring additional [...]
Counting Down to the Illustrated Kairos
Over the course of the last few months, in between exclamations of joy at the release of The Broken Lands and exhalations of relief over finishing (at least until my editor weighs in) Greenglass House, I have occasionally had reason to shriek in delight at the progress of The Illustrated Kairos Mechanism. Twelve artists sent work in styles varying from digital to pen and ink to watercolor to cut paper to pencil. I’m in the final stages of pulling it [...]
I Have Pretty Things and You Can Have One Too: The Kairos Mechanism Pinned Edition
So a couple weeks back I got this giant box of gorgeousness from Hamburg, Germany. One of the special things that was offered to Kickstarter backers of The Kairos Mechanism was a set of The Broken Lands, The Boneshaker, and The Kairos Mechanism signed by cover illustrator Andrea Offermann. In August I shipped these, plus some extras, out to Germany for Andrea to sign. And just look what came back to me (actually, these are the pictures Andrea sent me [...]
Novellablog: A Video Treat for a Special Day: Tom Guyot
Today I came home from seeing the first proofs of The Kairos Mechanism emerge warm out of the Espresso Book Machine to find a of The Broken Lands at my door–the first real-world, hardbound, this-is-what’s-gonna-be-on-the-bookshelves copy I’ve ever seen. It is beautiful. They both are. Here’s another really beautiful thing. As many of you know that, in addition to the ebook and paperback editions of The Kairos Mechanism (which, of course, is the companion novella to both The Broken Lands and [...]
Novellablog: Final Revision Stats, Briefly Stated in a Rambly Manner
This is not going to be my most elegant blog post. Mainly I want to write this down so that I can stare at it in an hour when Nathan gets home from work and I wake up from fugue state and wonder where the hell my day went. I am surfacing only briefly; I have, however, wolfed down my late lunch (note: it’s after 6pm in Brooklyn) in ten minutes rather than the twenty minutes I promised myself I [...]
Novellablog: It’s Time! PRE-ORDER THE KAIROS MECHANISM! And while you’re at it, PRE-ORDER THE BROKEN LANDS!
Boyohboy, guys, here we go! It’s time. It’s really, really time! It’s all over but the formatting, so I’m pleased to announce that The Kairos Mechanism will be available in paperback and your choice of digital formats created with Vook (PDF, iBooks-compatible, Kindle-compatible, and Nook-compatible) on Friday, September 7th, and you can preorder it right here, right now. Because the paperback of The Kairos Mechanism winds up costing a bit more like what an “adult” pb costs than what a middle grade or [...]
Novellablog, the Toolkit Series: Outbrain, Part Two, in which Kate Gets Schooled in Bloggin’.
In my previous post about Outbrain, I talked about why I chose to use it, how the service I used worked and what the results were. I also mentioned that in my first meeting with Natalie Chan, the Self-Serve marketing manager, I got a bit of a tutorial on being a better blogger. I needed Outbrain because I needed more traffic to my website during the Kickstarter campaign to fund The Kairos Mechanism. But it turns out that nobody goes [...]
Novellablog, the Toolkit Series: Outbrain, Part One
Having taken some time to decompress post-Kickstarter, I’m now ready to get moving on a group of posts I’ve been very excited about. In the Toolkit Series, I’ll be talking about some of the services that are making this first volume of the Arcana project possible. This is the first of two posts in which I’ll be talking about Outbrain. One of the challenges I knew I would have was that I’m a haphazard blogger, and at the time I [...]
Novellablog: Oh, Hi, July!
It’s been just about a month since the Kickstarter campaign to fund The Kairos Mechanism closed successfully. I have been very sporadic in my posting since then, but I’ve been hard at work, I swear. Here’s what I’ve been up to: Churning out pages of the book tentatively entitled Greenglass House, which is due in October and which comes out from Clarion in 2014. Doing final cleanups on The Kairos Mechanism to get it ready for the copyeditor. Meeting with [...]
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I wrote this book. Daniela Volpi took this picture.
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