Everyone’s remembering Terry Pratchett, who has left us – not of his own will but under his own terms – too soon, at age 66, one step ahead and one finger raised to the Alzheimer’s trying to destroy him. My memory of Terry Pratchett is not Discworld-related. I came very late to the Discworld books. […]
On Monday I realized I’d written myself down the wrong path. Not far, maybe a thousands words or so, but I was coming off the high of an amazing scene, and I let the lizard brain jump to the next amazing thing and it wasn’t until several pages later that I thought – no. This
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And I’m officially again working on two different books. Different genres, different time frames, vastly different voices… *head ‘splodes a little bit* book 1: She could still feel the press of the [redacted], like a bruise on her skin. If she touched it, if she looked at it, it would overwhelm her. So she looked
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Yesterday, Tor.Com did a reveal for the cover of SILVER ON THE ROAD. But I know some of you tend not to click through on things. So here. Let me SHOVE THEÂ AMAZING OH MY GOD SO BEAUTIFUL UNDER YOUR NOSE. This? Â Is never the cover I would have asked for. Â But it’s so incredibly
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Go forth and admire the full-size version, courtesy of the good folk at Tor.com! (and check out the series page here!)
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But really, it can all be summed up thus: The squalling of “oh, fantasy isn’t about REAL issues or proper use of metaphors” we’re seeing once again from critics and writers who should know better by now ignores the fact that ALL good fiction invokes moral and psychological themes – and emotional themes, too. And
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So, a while back, the unstoppable Jaym Gates came to me and said, kid, I want you to write me a story (if you’re imagining this as said in the voice of Arlo Guthrie channeling Officer Obie, you’d be dead to rights). It was for an anthology she was plotting, with the theme of genius
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Wrote about 1K words on a short story that I’ve made a bet with another friend that I can finish by next Sunday, even with everything else that’s going on. And then I went to the Cascade Writer’s Library Event in Renton, where I, Ken Scholes, and Heather Roulo dropped some hard truths (and funny
Today’s WiP darling: “She had grown up in proximity to the devil; power had been as present in the air she breathed as the sulphured smoke from the blacksmith’s forge.” I may kill it later. But for now, we’re in love. :-) 2000 new words and I’m finally starting to feel, nearly 25,000 words in,
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#TBT all the way to 2003, when I first saw the art that would become the cover of my first original book, STAYING DEAD. That was my favorite cover of all my work ever… until now. Now there’s maybe a new winner. Â *g*