misc. updatery

slobbit asked me what I'm working on these days. I told her, but figured I'd post here, too, for anyone else who's curious.

I'm trying to get my NaNo novel completed by the end of the month. I'm preparing a grant application for A Room of Her Own Foundation's Gift of Freedom award ($50,000 over 2 years). I'm writing a steampunk short story to submit to Pitch-Black's Magic & Mechanica anthology. I'm editing a pirate story to submit to the VanderMeers for the Fast Ships, Black Sails anthology--and figuring out what's wrong with this has finally helped me to see how to rewrite my Spiders short, so I'll be picking that back up in a couple of weeks. This next week, I'll probably be taking another crack at Blood Brother, including tackling the new beginning--the grant application requires a 10-page fiction sample, and I think that's my strongest, deepest work to date. I also have a few shorts out for crit that I'll be revising as I get comments back. Oh, and I have some poems I should see about editing, too.

Have some paying work going on, too--proofreading a book on Austria right now, then one on Scotland, then back to Austria for Vienna & the Danube Valley.