I blog about this both here and over at Book View Cafe. Feel free to comment either here or over there. When I moved into my house about three years ago, I had no idea that I was horribly allergic to a plant in the front yard. I didn’t find out about it until after […]
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I also blog about these things over at Book View Cafe. Feel free to comment either here or over there. My writing process has evolved and changed over the years. I anticipate it will continue to change. Currently, I write everything out by hand, first, then type it up on the computer. Creating fiction using
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I blog about inspiration both here and at the Book View Cafe Blog. Feel free to comment here or there. A while ago, I took an online class about designing covers. (Full disclosure: I’ve created all but two of my covers, and am in the process of redoing all of them.) As part of the class,
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I’ve started working on the next novel, “Siren’s Call.” I wrote the first three chapters while I was in New Orleans, and for various reasons, stopped. On first glance, I had assumed that I could use at least half of what I’d originally written. I just finished redrafting the first chapter. And yes, much of
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Though fall is my favorite season, I love the Seattle spring, and I particularly adore all the flowers blooming in my yard. (True fact: one of the paths to my heart is to bring me flowers regularly.) So under the cut are pictures! And more pictures! And even more pictures!
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I also blog about this over at Book View Cafe. Feel free to comment here or there! While I have a lot of pictures from fashion shows, these characters who walk the runway, I also get inspired by pictures of settings. My favorite season is fall. I am a color junky. I go out and
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Recently, Dean Wesley Smith blogged about writing a 70,000 word novel in 10 days. It was fascinating to read how he did it, his attitudes toward writing, etc. A lot of it is apply butt to chair, trust the process, trust your writerly brain. Dean writes into the dark, has no idea what the ending
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I’ve always enjoyed the outdoors. It wasn’t until I bought my house back in 2011 that I discovered that I really like gardening. I have lots of books on habitation of different areas, like the plants and flowers of the Yucatan (which I used for “The Jaguar and the Wolf”). I have similar books for
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Woo hoo! The ebook version of the anthology “Unnatural Worlds” is available today! Edited by Kristine Katherine Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith, “Unnatural Worlds” is the first of an anthology series featuring volumes that appear every two month. “Unnatural Worlds” also features original stories by Devon Monk, Ray Vukcevich, Esther M. Friesner, Dean Wesley Smith,
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True confession time. I enjoy reading about fashion. I am a Project Runway junkie, and I religiously follow Tom and Lorenzo. (Their “Pretty of the day” posts are frequently inspiring!) I buy fashion books, and, okay, I sometimes even buy fashion magazines (special treat for when I’m sick and lying in bed and want to
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