Merry Christmas, to all who observe/celebrate/enjoy! Combining two days of work into one post, for brevity’s sake. Chapter Two was more of a bear than I had expected – this is where I am wading into unfamiliar waters, both in setting and time, and the characters are a reach for me. Finding something in […]
Day Four and Day Five of the Year-End Project Read More »
So, the last week of the year probably isn’t the best of times to announce a deal (nobody’s around to cheer) and I’ll probably re-announce it come January, but the details have been hammered out and I’m pleased to say that PlusOne Press will be doing the trade paper edition* of Miles to Go/Promises to
In which I’m getting the hang of this new-fangled multi-prong publishing world…. Read More »
PSA: looking for that last-minute downloadable gift? Something to read on the long trip to Grandma’s house? DRM-free fiction at BookView Cafe! Holiday Sale! (and yes, this is a sideways reminder that my DRAGON VIRUS, FROM WHENCE YOU CAME, and PRACTICAL MEERKAT’S 52 BITS OF USEFUL INFORMATION are available direct from the publisher here…. but
PSA for the holidays & an Update on Day 3 of the Year-End Project Read More »
This is a not-under-contract project, something I only get to work on when all other obligations have been met. Goal: to have 50k words in polished working order by 1 January. Day 1: got the errata, notes, and existing text imported into Scrivener. Â Created a character call-sheet. ——————————- Started working on part 1, chapter 1
Day 2 of the Year-End Project Read More »
Probably won’t make Draft on “Promises to Keep” today, since I have a breakfast meeting and then afternoon plans to see The Hobbit  (yes, I know, but it’s THE HOBBIT. I have to give the first segment a chance, right?).  However, Draft status seems imminent this weekend…. “Alfred knew he sounded like an idiot. He
Mid-December. Yeah. How’d THAT happen? Read More »
And with the push of the send tab, SOUL OF FIREÂ (Portals #2) is off to Madame Editrix. Â It will come back to me for dire revisions, as she points out all the mis-builds I was too in-the-guts to see, but right now I’m feeling pretty good about the book, and the duology overall. Â You’ll get
That was the Weekend That Was (sort of lost in a fog of words) Read More »
One of the things I’m thankful for – after my best-beloveds (blood kin and otherwise) and my health – are my readers. You make it possible for me to wake up every morning and, no matter how tired I am, look forward to the day’s work. So when I saw this t-shirt, I HAD to
A Thanksgiving Contest! Read More »
There’s nothing like the panic of waking up and thinking OMG NEW BOOK TODAY! If I ever get blasé about that, please hit me. Because EEEEEEEEE! *manages to hop in excitement and shudder in concern, all at once* And yes, launching a new identity AND a new series kind of cranks both sides of that
Welcome, welcome to L.A. Kornetsky! Read More »
Working on a proposal today, writing up the sample chapter, and I nail the paragraph that nails the POV character. “This wasn’t a job. I was on leave. Medical leave, officially. “Get your shit together†leave, unofficially. Which probably maybe explained why I was out there, at oh-dark o’clock, sitting on my numb ass watching
Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve done ’till it’s done… Read More »
Reportedly, one last day of over-90’s heat, and then we’re back to reasonable seasonable. I plan on spending all of next week in various stages of Outdoors, to celebrate. [hopefully, everyone has come through their heat, excessive rain, or quench-already-you-damn-fire, and can relax a little now, too. Â Why can’t we send the rain to the
salt bagels and surf and simmering sun…. Read More »