I just ended my newsletter experiment on Substack, so I’m back to my website being the main source for all things C. S. E. Cooney-esque.
Of course, whenever Carlos and I collaborate, we post the news on hernandooney.com, so if you’re a follower/fan of Negocios Infernales, that’s the place to be… though I do like to re-blog it here, and vice versa. Same with conventions we’ll be at, appearances, etc, etc.
If for some reason you have trouble following WordPress blogs, but you want to get all our news right in your inbox, as you would with other newsletter services, I found a how-to here.
Oh.
By the way…
HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS!!!
I have so much to tell you!
Carlos and I have been sending out updates to our Kickstarter backers, along with Google polls in order to arrange the Roll20 games of Negocios Infernales and the Infernal Salons that we promised as rewards. We also sent our edits for our little collection Infernal Bargains to our editor, Alana J Abbott, at Outland Entertainment.
All that’s left is to sign the contract, heh heh heh… >.>
This is the collection of all the works Carlos and I wrote and/or published based on card draws from Negocios Infernales’s DECK OF DESTINY (la Baraja del Destino). It was a stretch goal that we sort of BLEW RIGHT THROUGH. So I’m excited to have a new COLLECTION out soon! AND WITH MY DOCTOR HUSBANDPANTS NO LESS!
Right now, I’m working on my sequel to Saint Death’s Herald. It’s due at the end of February. I have a couple exciting books I’ll be blurbing, as well. AND I get to write three short stories for upcoming anthologies that I’m so excited about. Maybe I’ll do a whole other blog on that!
I’ll also be writing more about the cons we’ll be attending this year. We’ll be attending SFF book cons as well as game cons, so we’ll be out and about a lot this year. Carlos and I will both be Guests of Honor as HELIOsphere this year–along with Clarkesworld’s NEIL CLARKE. That’s in New Jersey.
Our first con of the year, though, will be PLANET (the Kansas City Comic Con), the local con for our game publishers, Outland Entertainment. We were so busy traveling for the holidays, getting sick from traveling, and recovering from travel (and from last semester/end of last year) that we skipped Boskone this year for our mental health. It was a great decision, but we also missed everybody.
This Saturday, I’m scooting over to Boston for a quick day trip for one reason only:
TO WATCH A HALLMARK MOVIE AT A FRIEND’S HOUSE.
But not just ANY Hallmark Movie, friends.
This Hallmark movie is the FILM DEBUT of my friend, the brilliant playwright (and now SCREENWRITER!) Reina Hardy! It’s part of Hallmark’s February “Loveuary”–all Jane Austen movies, all the time. Reina’s is called PAGING MR. DARCY, and it looks adorable.
But mostly, mostly, for the whole next month, till LEAPDAY, I’ll be finishing my novel, Saint Death’s Herald. (Or as my mom, J-9, Carlos, and I have all taken to calling it, “HAROLD!” in a bad New York accent.)
I’ve been using the new cover as my screensaver on my phone, and the wallpaper on my laptop, but it’s not public yet so I can’t show you how PRETTY IT IS! But it is. SO PRETTY. So cheerful. I look at it whenever I want to re-inspire myself.
It’s, like, a book cover. Of a finished book. So I have to finish!!!
More soon! About the short stories in these awesome upcoming anthologies, and the D&D event we just played in public at the Klein Auditorium, and playing Baldur’s Gate 3 with Carlos–my first video game as an adult!!!! I mean…
Life is very full. And, locally, very sweet indeed.
C.S.E. Cooney 
1) do I have to unsubscribe from Substack? I’m not even sure how to research in history if I’ve donated any money to you through it? Or do I just forget about it? 2) I would really REALLY love to go to the Kansas City event but it’s too close to Hermes being born…… I know I can take a side trip to KC any other time on my points east L, but it would have been fun to be with you. I’m really looking into HELIOsphere —I have to check with Rose about taking some time off. Ticket prices are decent right now —$300 round-trip is always a decent price and they’ll probably go up by 1 March. Flying in and out of Newark is only about $50 cheaper so I’d rather come in & out of JFK and then drive to Newark (and back to Queens) with you if that’s OK with you. 3) let’s schedule more HAROLD!!Love,Yo mama Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
I don’t think so? I haven’t shut down my account yet, but I won’t be posting to it again. What you did (a few other people did too) was pledge that if I ever monetized my blog, you’d support it for X amount of dollars a year. But I never monetized it, and have no intention of doing so, so I don’t think you’ll be docked for any money. If, however, your CC info is somewhere on there, you might shut down your account?
Heliosphere is in May, I think, so the baby should be a few months old!!! That would be so fun. And it’s local to us, ish, so you could fly to us and we’d all take the train or rent a car together! Let us know if that’s going to happen, and we’ll look at price of hotel rooms. Maybe I can help out there!
You’d be heartbroken if you missed Hermes’ birth!!! Let’s talk soon to hammer out the logistics!