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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In America, it’s Thanksgiving weekend. Both me and my sweetie have taken off a bit extra as well, so we have not been working since Wednesday, and we’re also both taking Monday off. For the past few years, my Thanksgiving tradition has included a writing marathon. I have several days off, and all I do
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Sooo…for those following along at home, I’ve started writing a new novel. (When the Moon Over Kualani Comes) I really, really kind of wanted this to be a single novel. I’ve got too many other novels planned, sequels and such for already published works, for me to be taking on yet another trilogy or something.
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I blog about inspiration both here and over at Book View Cafe. Feel free to comment either over here or there! This week I was in San Francisco, for the day job. I had to stay at a hotel pretty far from downtown, but luckily, the company provided free buses into the city. On Wednesday,
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I blog about inspiration both here and over at Book View Cafe. Feel free to comment either here or there! I create song lists for every novel I do. I had a great one for Siren’s Call–full of bright jazz, with some Asian pieces thrown in, and a couple of country western numbers to boot.
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As part of the release for Siren’s Call I’ve had a couple of interviews! Here’s the interview at Book View Cafe. Here’s the interview with Pegamoose.
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