I’m over at Charlie Stross’ place today, guest-blogging about writing American history that isn’t my history…. or is it? Meanwhile, the topic of that blog, SILVER ON THE ROAD, is starting to propagate pre-order links, although there’s no cover or copy available yet. Shall we see how high we can push it before they even give […]
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God, I hate going over page proofs in .pdf. Â But I will admit that being able to email them back is better than having to pack up 300+ sheets of paper and FedEx it… Meanwhile, my favorite “I wrote that!” bit: “The advantage to telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
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So on Friday, I finally saw the almost-finished cover for SILVER ON THE ROAD. And I had some nitpicks, because, well, ARTISTS, she said in mock disgust. But overall? I kind of fucking love it. But it’s not Officially Finished Yet. Â So I can’t show it to anyone. *flails and dies a little*
You know you’re a city dweller when… this morning at 7am there were individuals having a music party down in the not-an-alley* behind my building. Â And my only thought was “not my choice of music, but not bad” rather than “these crazy kids why’re they blasting music at 7am on a Sunday?” Â And then someone
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SILVER ON THE ROAD is off to the copyeditor (eeep) and is being over-read for horse and native neep as well, to ensure that I only make the most embarrassing mistakes everyone else also missed… Meanwhile, I’m closing in on the 10% mark of Book #2:  “There was something his charge wasn’t telling him, her
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1.  Reminder if you missed the earlier announcements: the #‎willwrite2feedothers story for 2015 went live! (but will only remain live for a limited time, so read now!) 2. A sporting thing happened here in town.  There was much swearing and sweating and triumphant heart attack honking and cheering.  If I’d had an actual emotional attachment to this
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I find this slightly worrying and at the same time deeply reassuring. (hint: James Patterson and John Irving both had their break-out novel at my age, and Janet Evanovich was older. None of them were on their first (or second) book.) Explore the careers of some of the world’s most successful authors. Click image
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This morning I dealt with a feline sugar crash (perfect timing cat, you couldn’t have done that while at the vet’s tomorrow?) and then delicately hammered out my daily dose of new words- Brassy child, he muttered, not first the first time since she’d issued that threat. His own fault for teaching her to tie
Fascinating, and rather depressing conversation happening on Twitter right now about the Great Mostly White Male “most anticipated fantasy books of 2015” lists dropping now. (the females seen on these lists? Robin Hobb and Kameron Hurley. Both potentially gender-neutral names, and Kameron says she specifically requested that they not put an author photo on the
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