Last night, after officially closing up shop for the day, I opened a new file and started writing. I probably shouldn’t have – halfway funded is not the same thing as fully-funded, and I have a LOT on my desk already – but that’s the thing with the Sylvan Investigation stories… Danny’s an insistent little bastard, and […]
Kickstarter update: Work Of Hunters, and how it begins… Read More »
Hah! Work of Hunters/An Interrupted Cry is 51% funded! You know what that means, don’t you? It means I can let myself start writing the first draft. I mean, as soon as I get everything else off my plate.  *drinks more coffee* (51% doesn’t guarantee that the project WILL fund. But it’s where the reins on my story-impatience
1. A cat story. So Castiel Kitten of Thursday likes to sit in the window seat behind my desk and do his “heyyyyyyy heyyyyy heyyyyy†meow (imagine a very cute rusty gate). And then when I turn my chair around and look at him he stops, stares at me in confusion like OMG you’re looking
Five Things Before we Snow… Read More »
from mb_galleycat at Most Authors Make Less Than $1,000 a Year: DBW “The majority of authors make less than $1,000 a year, according to a new report from Digital Book World. Almost 80% of self-published authors and more than half of traditionally published authors earn less than $1,000 a year, according to the report. A little more than 40
In which practical meerkat has a few words about money, writing, and freelancing Read More »
Only a week late, due to travel and Feline Vet Trauma, I’m delighted to announce the start of a new Kickstarter for THE WORK OF HUNTERS and AN INTERRUPTED CRY, two Sylvan Investigation novellas! As I say in the video, I had so much fun writing the first two, and reader reaction was so positive, doing
Danny Hendrickson and Ellen are at it again! Read More »
Oh, *squeak* Purely by accident I stumbled across Black Gate’s review of HEART OF BRIAR, and I am a happy happy happy author…. “She got me. I didn’t expect to get caught up in this book, thought I would just read the first couple of chapters, because it’s not my usual kind of thing. Gilman
Another Reviewer Heard From…. on HEART OF BRIAR Read More »
Well, not until tomorrow. But I will be en route then, so I’m posting about it now. Utterly logical time travel, right? If you’re going to be there, here is where you can find me. If you’re not going to be there….well, why NOT? >>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<< Friday Panel Room 5 pm Reading (your first chance to
Illogicon! In lovely Raleigh/Durham, NC. Â Where I will be doing a few panels and shilling a few books and possibly reading a few words…. Arisia! In lovely but probably still-very-cold Boston! Where I will be doing a few panels (very few, this year) and shilling a few books, and definitely reading some words… If you’re
Convention Sighting Update: January Read More »
Gone and back again, reunited with the cats and planning to spend the rest of the day putting my house in order for 2014, in oh so many ways both literal and metaphorical. I hope your celebrations were enjoyable and safe, and you woke this morning feeling good about the year to come. Stolen from
This is a story about a story. Â But it’s more than that. Somewhere in early 2012, I’d started working on a story, set in the same universe as my short stories “Crossroads” and “The Devil’s Jack” (forthcoming in DEAD MAN’S HAND). Â But about three thousand words in, I realized that there was more here than
“I am terrified, but I’m not afraid” (a writing year in review) Read More »