and the rest is rust and stardust
A "this was very close" story rejection today got me kind of in a meditative mood, especially given the reflective nature of the New Yearish time of year, and I found myself facing something that I come back to a lot these days when successes are immediately followed by things not working out the way... Continue Reading →
So I've been tagged in the Next Big Thing blog hop that's been going around, by the marvelous Catherine Lundoff - who you should really be paying attention to. I just finished her novel Silver Moon and enjoyed it hugely (menopausal werewolves; you can't imagine what a breath of fresh air that is). So here's me.... Continue Reading →
I'm in the process of my first read-through and first editing pass of A Murder of Crows, which I don't think I've talked about much here if at all, and which is a dark fantasy novel that I began at the beginning of October and finished at the end of that same month. My instincts... Continue Reading →
An earlier version of this post appeared on my Dreamwidth So I finished Harbinger yesterday, or at least a draft of it. It clocks in at about 79k words, which is respectable. There's still a lot of work to be done on it, but it feels good to be done. I suppose. It honestly doesn't... Continue Reading →
Once again I'm getting this up later than I wanted to -- not for any legitimate reason aside from the fact that I didn't get to it until now -- so in terms of Scary Things In Writing, what I'm most immediately facing is the terror of flunking at self-imposed deadlines. But something else scary... Continue Reading →
Just this last week I and my coauthor sent the working draft of Line & Orbit off to the editor with which we'll be working at Samhain. We signed contracts about a month ago, but there were a few reasons why it took us an additional month to get a starter draft to the editor,... Continue Reading →
Yes, I've finally done another one of these. Yay. In here I talk about Scheherazade's Facade, its path to publication, and the very awesome message that I think has been sent by the fact that it is fully funded and in fact was funded way, way before the deadline. Which? By the way? Thank you.... Continue Reading →
How The Hell To Do This, Part The Sixth: Submit! So this is neither a regular series anymore, nor is it happening on Mondays. I'm keeping the title around because I like alliteration, but if there's one thing that's made itself abundantly clear over the last semester, it's that regular blogging is much harder for... Continue Reading →
How The Hell To Do This, Part The Fifth: Edit Like An Asshole. A word about the title of these: I realize that it might read sort of obnoxious, like I think that this is the the definitive way to be a writer and to publish. Let me be clear about this: I don't think... Continue Reading →
How The Hell To Do This, Part The Fourth: Let It Suck This is something else I've written about before. It tends to be more of an issue with longer pieces for me, because those are the points at which stamina really comes into play (people who compare writing novels to running marathons are not... Continue Reading →
A Trick of Light 