There’s still about $250 to go before midnight tonight, to get the kickstarter for WORK OF HUNTERS / AN INTERRUPTED CRY to 75% (and get me to dye my hair purple). Another $2,400 in the next two weeks for us to reach 100% and get these novellas rolling. $10 for two novellas. But if you kick in more, […]
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I’ve returned to the WiP and can confirm that if it does not love me just yet (after the month hiatus) it is still very fond of me and is willing work work together to make things right again. Me? I still adore it. Even when it makes me crazy. ——- In other writing news,
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Woke up this morning and the combination of BioFreeze, painkillers, and a heating pad seem to have done the trick on my shoulder. But since I’m going to be working in a non-traditional format (no office chair) until further notice, this may change at any moment. Â Hopefully, I’ll be able to go chair-shopping over the
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Yesterday I spent mostly putting out various fires. Today, I’m gathering kindling. No doubt, by Monday, I’ll be putting out fires again. Somewhere in there I suppose is also carry water… Today is Team Kornetsky, working on the revisions to Gin & Tonic #3, which will NOT be called DOGHOUSE. Unless it is. It’s the
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
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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
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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
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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
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