A still, humid morning. I’d welcome a raging thunderstorm, if it would get the air moving a little bit… These are the days I find it hardest to work in: when the air is thick and heavy and anticipation is shivering just under the skin for something to HAPPEN and it never does…at that point […]
Such a rare thing to the freelancer or writer, the day off. An actual day where you not only don’t do any work (or billable hours) but you don’t even THINK about it. Okay, maybe that last was a bit too much to ask for. But I did manage to spend a lovely Saturday with
After nearly one year, four passes, two false endings, and some brave work by a small army of beta readers, and at a weirdly lean 114,000 words, SILVER ON THE ROAD is off to Twinling and Agent for their not-quite-so-exhausted take. Yay? *decides that yes, yay* So that’s one deadline down, two to go. Â Since
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Midway through the fourth pass, and something that’s been in there since first draft caught me by surprise with “oh, that’s how this will be relevant later.” Book, c’mon, you’re KILLING me. I also yanked an entire scene out, and figure I can maybe use the character introduced there somewhere else, in a later book, maybe with
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June 14th, 1989. It was a Wednesday. Â I believe that it was a sunny day, but not too warm. Â I was probably sweating anyway. Â I got on the train to come into NYC from NJ, walked over from the PATH station on 34th street to 200 Madison Avenue, on the corner of 35th street, and
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After spending a year creating a new world and new characters for SILVER ON THE ROAD, returning to Sylvan investigations, and the world of the Cosa Nostradamus is kind of… interesting, in a shake-up-the-brain way. Because none of you have met Isobel, Matthew or Farron yet. None of you have encountered the boss, or Calls
“Kindness, just then, made her want to break things.” And – a few weeks late – the 1st chapter of WORK OF HUNTERS is happening… :-) (if you didn’t support the Kickstarter, you’re going to have to waaaaaaaaaaaait to read this. But you can still pick up the first two novellas at Book View Cafe / B&N /Kobo/
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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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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
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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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