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Hi, I\u2019m Anthony! I love to write books and eat food, activities that I power by fiddling with computers. Welcome to 2016! It\u2019s a year. I hope it\u2019s a good one, but hope is not a strategy, so here\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do to make 2016 better for you.<\/p>\n
First, I\u2019m writing books.<\/b> I\u2019ve got a nearly-complete manuscript of a steampunk novel JEREMIAH WILLSTONE AND THE CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE which I\u2019m wrangling with the very excellent editor Debra Dixon at Bell Bridge Books<\/a>. God willing, you\u2019ll see this come out this year. Jeremiah appears in a lot of short stories in the anthologies UnCONventional<\/a>, 12 HOURS LATER<\/a>, and 30 DAYS LATER – more on that one in a bit.<\/p>\n I also have completed drafts of the urban fantasy novels SPECTRAL IRON and HEX CODE, starring Dakota Frost<\/a> and her adopted daughter Cinnamon Frost, respectively. If you like magical tattoos, precocious weretigers, and the trouble they can get into, look for these books coming soon – or check out FROST MOON<\/a>, BLOOD ROCK<\/a> and LIQUID FIRE<\/a>, the first three Dakota books. (They\u2019re all still on sale, by the way).<\/p>\n Second, I\u2019m publishing books.<\/b> I and some author\/artist friends in the Bay Area founded Thinking Ink Press<\/a>, and we are publishing the steampunk anthology 30 DAYS LATER edited by Belinda Sikes, AJ Sikes and Dover Whitecliff. We\u2019re hoping to also re-release their earlier anthology 12 HOURS LATER; both of these were done for the Clockwork Alchemy<\/a> conference, and we\u2019re proud to have them.<\/p>\n We\u2019re also publishing a lot more – FlashCards and InstantBooks and SnapBooks and possibly even a reprint of a novel which recently went out of print. Go to Thinking Ink Press for more news; for things I\u2019m an editor\/author on I\u2019ll also announce them here.<\/p>\n Third, I\u2019m doing more computing.<\/b> Cinnamon Frost is supposed to be a mathematical genius, so to simulate her thought process I write computer programs (no joke). I\u2019ve written up some few articles on this for publication on this blog, and hope to do more over the year to come.<\/p>\n Fourth, I\u2019m going to keep doing art.<\/b> Most of my art is done in preparation for either book frontispieces or for 24-Hour Comics Day<\/a>, but I\u2019m going to step that up a bit this year – I have to, if I\u2019m going to get (ulp) three frontispieces done over the next year. Must draw faster!<\/p>\n Finally, I\u2019m going to blog more.<\/b> I\u2019m already doing it, right now, but one way I\u2019m trying to get ahead is to write two blog posts at a time, publishing one and saving one in reserve. This way I can keep getting ahead, but if I fall behind I\u2019ve got some backlog to fall back on. I feel hounded by all the ideas in my head, so I\u2019m going to loose them on all of you.<\/p>\n As for New Year\u2019s Resolutions? Fah. I could say \u201cexercise more, blog every day, and clean up the piles of papers\u201d but we all know New Year\u2019s Resolution\u2019s are a joke, unless your name is Jim Davies, in which case they\u2019re performance art<\/a>.<\/p>\n SO ANYWAY, 2016. It\u2019s going to be a year. I hope we can make it a great one!<\/p>\n -the Centaur<\/p>\n