Goblin Quest, by Jim Hines
DAW, paperback
352 pages, crazytrain fantasy
Currently in print

( What happens when you look at the classical fantasy quest -- with its heroic princes, dangerous wizards, stoic dwarves, and untrustworthy thieves -- from the other side of the dungeon? How do you define 'monster' when you're the one raiding the dungeon? It's a hard question; there are some hysterical answers this way.Collapse )

Here go:

Chapters so far: eight
Total words: 70,814
Reason for stopping: finished the first eight chapters, which was the weekend goal.
Music: horror movies on Sci-Fi. Bad, bad horror movies.
Lilly: sleeping on the filing cabinet above my head. Like a fuzzy gargoyle.

So I'm eight chapters into the revision. My romantic lead has suffered a name change, going from 'Jason' to 'Kevin' due to some conflicts with, y'know, other books. Stupid other books, existing and...um...creating a genre for me to work in. Well, crudcakes.

My chapters have acquired titles, which is fairly spiffy, and I'm catching some excitingly uncaught continuity issues. (Seriously, I think that I and my proofers were both napping at certain points on this book. I will punish myself by watching more bad horror movies. Oh the agony.)

Productivity is awesome.