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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I’ve been really sick the last week. This morning, I woke up and finally felt better. Not well, but more like I’ve been running on empty for the last week, with no energy at all, and this morning, the batteries were half full. Note: Not all the way full. Merely half. So today, and probably
I’ve been sick this week. Really sick. This is probably the sickest I’ve been since 2009, when I have pneumonia. Wednesday was the worst. I had a high fever, I know I got confused, and I lost process. I forgot to brush my teeth that night. Now, that may not sound like much to some,
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People always ask writers, “Where do you get your ideas?” Honestly, for me, most of the time the answer is, “No frigging clue.” For example, my latest novel, “The Guardian Hound.” I was toward the very end of writing “The Raven and the Dancing Tiger” and I wrote two sentences, just two, and then I
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I finished my edits for “The Guardian Hound” this afternoon, and sent it off to first readers. YAY. I am planning on writing a couple of short stories in the next couple of weeks. First, I thought I’d try another Rabbit story. I sold the first Rabbit story to Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, so I
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I finished typing up the first draft of “The Guardian Hound” Monday, I believe. I’ve moved on to doing a final fix and heavy polish. I must power through three chapters every day in order to be finished by the 31st. That means between 3-6 hours every night of concentrated, hard work. Ugh. But I’m