*squeak* Less than two weeks in, and we hit $2571! This might really happen, I might get to write this story for y’all! Only $1429 to go. We can do that, right? 286 people who want a full-length, epic fantasy novella [with sea serpents! and magic! And treachery and greed and honor and love!] for […]
A Kickstarter SQUEAK! Read More »
Linky Things: It’s Friday, so you know what that means: Self-publish? Big Six? Something Else? Practical Meerkat has her say, in week 45. My Kickstarter project, a “prequel” novella set in the universe of The Vineart War, hit 51% funded in the first week!  I’ve started writing – I can’t help myself – so I
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I have 3 different stories (2 novels & the Kickstarter novella) running around in my head. This may be why I woke up at 4am. If I wasn’t so psyched about all three projects, I’d be seriously pissed. But I woke to find that USAn voters have said “unions are good, giving fertilized eggs more
Getting Over the Hump… Read More »
So I swore I was going to be sensible, and cautious, and not start writing “From Whence You Came” until I had a pretty good idea if this was going to succeed but…. yeah. Well. So much for that plan! Because yesterday the story demanded its share of my writing time. [sleep? who needs sleep?]
Kickstarter Update: In Which I am Too Gleeful to be Cautious Read More »
The thing about “From Whence You Came” is that I never had any intention of writing it. Master Vineart Bradhai just a bit of backstory in the trilogy, to explain why there were no longer any sea serpents. But I couldn’t get him out of my head – the question of what, exactly he had
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The Vineart War trilogy told the story of Jerzy, who defended the Lands Vin from a threat from without. But generations before, there had been a threat from below. It was a passing reference, part of the history of the Lands Vin… but once mentioned, it grew in my head, until I couldn’t not tell
A new Lands Vin Story? If you will it, it will be so…. Read More »
Specifically, I am now allowed – ahead of the official announcement but that’s what you get when you let things loose on the internet – that PACK OF LIES (PSI #2) is a Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award nominee for Best Urban Fantasy! Let loose the w00ts! the fact that I’m competing against friends,
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Home from World Fantasy, which was its usual chaotic, jumbled, energizing, exhausting self. It – as usual – helped me refocus my mind, determine what was important, and what was Not. it also reaffirmed that, for me, WFC = Commonwealth, as I seemed to once again spend much of my time with the Brits, Aussies,
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Where the hell did the month go? And yet, here is is, the end of October, and so, tomorrow I am off to World Fantasy Conference, in San Diego. I will miss the group signing tonight at Mysterious Galaxy, which makes me Very Sad, but it couldn’t be helped. If you happen to be there,
Wrapping up October… Read More »
So today’s the National Day of Writing, I am told. As opposed, I guess, to the other 364 days… Over on Twitter, there’s a hashtag of #whyiwrite. My reason is simple: same reason as #whyibreathe. I was born with words jumbling inside me, wanting to be put in order and set free, to try and
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