So I rarely (never) have playlists (or even listen to music) when I’m writing a novel. For short fiction, though? Almost always. I don’t think it through – I rummage in the bin and pull out whatever feels right, and then try to figure out what those choices are telling me about where I’m going […]
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The book I’m working on now is studded with small details – things that may or may not reflect back into the reader, and will probably be overlooked or ignored by most, but were, yes, placed there deliberately, the way a garden architect chooses what trellis to climb each rose on. I do this sort
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I have spent the past few days locked in the windowless Inner Circle of Hell that is the Javits Center, helping man the SFWA booth for Book Expo America. And yes the reading horde (comprising of bloggers, librarians, publishers, various and sundry publishing-related folk, and General Readers) were unleashed upon us, and lo we did
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part two of the research road trip report is up, over at Book View Cafe, with a bonus research question for y’all to respond to! Remember: blog views are love. Views and comments are love with a side of chocolate. :-) The rocks are frogs.The trees are watching. The air’s kinda thin up here. But I’m
More trip report, and some whimsy! Read More »
Over at Book View Cafe, I talk about travel and research, in “There and Back Again, or “Why are you here?”
Linking you Elsewhere… Read More »
When you discover that your name has been invoked as “I like her book better than the one I’m reviewing.” Because yes there’s “YAY! Reader-love!” but there’s also “oh god, I’ve been on the other side of that and it SUCKS.” So I’ll say that I’m glad the reviewer likes my books, and I’m glad
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This morning I kicked my houseguest to the curb (okay, I put her in a cab) and returned to the usual schedule of All Book All Day. Second pass on this book is…different. I’m not changing actual scenes, but instead adding or subtracting lines to support other elements elsewhere in the book, and/or changing details
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Some of them possibly even coherent. As a prelude to the release of DEAD MAN’S HAND, John Joseph Adams interviewed several of the contributors about their stories, their influences, and why they wrote what they did…. mine’s here, if you’re interested.
In which the author has a few words… Read More »
To you, anyway. Â To me it’s marked in blood, coffee rings, and inky fingers. Gin & Tonic #4 is a Draft, as of Tuesday. It’s an ugly, messy draft, but it has a beginning, a middle, an ending, and a through-line, so there’s that, and I still have a few weeks to polish it to
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Saturday I took off for one of the AlternOffices, and honestly, It was like having flashbacks to working my senior thesis, back in college…. (except fewer frisbees going overhead) That, because odds are maybe one person reading here will recognize it, is the southward view of Isham Park in Manhattan, what one fellow sun-soaker referred to as
weekend recap, mostly in photos. Read More »