I blog about inspiration both here and over at Book View Cafe. Feel free to comment either here or over there! As y’all may or may not know, I’ve been traveling in New Zealand for the last three weeks. One of the things I love about traveling is discovering how I’ve changed once I return–what […]
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I’m back! I had a lovely three week holiday in New Zealand. I’ll post more about that later, including a new series of Tuesday Travel posts. There is also NEWS. The latest issue of the Fiction River anthology series, Hex in the City, includes the short story “Fox and Hound” by me. For the next
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Woo and hoo! The audio versions of both The Raven and the Dancing Tiger and The Guardian Hound are now available! Sorry for such a short post and no more details, but I’m still on the road. More details later!
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Because it’s the end of the year, I’ve been updating a spreadsheet that I use to keep track of all the words I’ve written for the year. I surprised myself once again. At the end of last year, I wrote about what I wrote and published. I did a complete accounting, which I suppose I
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I also blog about inspiration over at Book View Cafe. Feel free to comment either here or over there! Between now and the end of February, I have six short story assignments rolling in, for a workshop that I’m taking. I’ve written two short stories, each about 5000 words, in the last few days. I
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I’m participating in a sale over at Kobo. From now until January 5th, you can buy my book Siren’s Call for half off! All you have to do is use the promo code 50COUPON when you check out. There are lots of other lovely books for sale over there as well. The sale lasts until
(Subtitled: Novel plotting edition) My short story assignments haven’t come yet. This is good — it means I’ll finish the current novel before they arrive. In the meanwhile, I’ve been working on another novel as well. I’ve often said that I have a two-plot novel brain: While I’m writing one novel, I can generally also
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The latest of the Fiction River anthology series has come out, and I have a short story in this anthology! “Fox and Hound.” Part of what I wrote for the intro: “I wrote, and threw out, three other beginnings to this story. The process felt as though I was circling in, getting closer and closer,
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I blog about inspiration both here and over at Book View Cafe. Feel free to comment either here or there! Starting sometime next week, I’m going to be given writing assignments. Why am I turning away from the novel, you may ask. Good question! Come February 2014, I’m attending the anthology workshop, listed here. For
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One of the joys of novel writing–no, really, it’s a joy!–is remembering that, at least for me, every novel is different. Different characters, different feel, different process. I’m currently writing a new novel. I’m in that messy middle, where things aren’t coming together and I don’t know where I’m going. (About 40,000 words in.) I
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