One Book A Week
Over on my Livejournal (for ease of commenting) I’m running a book giveaway. One book a week, all summer (through August). Details are here.Â
the writing life
It’s Wednesday. All day. I think more caffeine is in order, don’t you?
Onward and onward on the revisions for HEART OF BRIAR. As I said on the Other Social Medias (OSMs), writing a novel is like building a mountain out of pebbles. Revising is like trying to rearrange the pebbles without causing a landslide. So far so good – the major changes are all making sense, and
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We Remember (we never forget)
for those who served in war and peace who took the burden whatever their reasons. We Remember.
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and she’s home…
Spain was lovely, and while I wrote up a quick trip report of the first few days for BookViewCafe, I then fell off the blogging wagon entirely and merely tweeted random updates as we had bandwidth and energy. As soon as I get the photos identified and posted, I’ll let the three of you who’re
Monday, Yeah
Mmmm. Fusilli with garlic, ancho chiles and sardines, topped with grana padano and pignoli  [beats CatofSize off with a stick]. The only thing that could make this better would be – oh, look at that, a glass of wine! *noms* It has been a Very Long Day, mostly dealing with the AA (author alteration pages)
Practical Meerkat: In Which I Plot
First: the ObPromotionalBit: A half-faun PI. A girl who sees Death. Magic that runs on electricity. NYC. You know it’s gonna be a party… Go on, check it out. Ahem. And now, onward to the writing neep. So, today I started working on the second mystery project. And The first thing I did was take
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[Practical Meerkat] On Craft: The Boss and the Through-Line
Lunacon was a lovely time – slightly weird, since I was day-tripping it, but I came out the other side feeling far more rested than usual, so I’ll call the experiment a success (when you live half an hour drive from the hotel, why not sleep in your own bed at night?). There were the
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Thinking About Thinking About Doing the Writing (Practical Meerkat revisits)
Reading my old LiveJournal entries (I do that, periodically, to revisit places and emotions) and I can across this entry from 2007, which deserves to be pulled out and set fresh: “Doesn’t matter who you are, or what you’re trying to get done: Ass in Chair is still a valid and effective means to the
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In which I tease you about a book, and tease you with a cover…
So this afternoon I finished the book yet-known as Portals #1. When by “finished” I mean “I hit the last page of the draft but will have to revise it before it goes to Madame Editrix.” So finished good enough to collapse for the weekend. *thuds* This book was both really hard to write (oh
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Guest Post: Juliet McKenna on Thinking about The Trilogy
Part of an ongoing, non-scheduled series, wherein I grab writers I’m reading, and ask them to talk about something related to that book, that they haven’t had a chance to talk about before, or at enough length. 0O0 I read Juliet McKenna’s first book, The Thief’s Gamble, back when it came out, and thought “ooh,
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