While I was writing the novel A Sword’s Poem I came to realize that there was a huge, long backstory for one of the main characters, namely, the priestess Ayumi. While I was at the fantasy workshop earlier this year, I decided to write that story. So here it is – The Healer’s Daughter. Ayumi has a […]
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Hurrah! Huzzah! A Sword’s Poem is now available, both in ebook and print! Here’s the blurb: Hikaru and her one true love Norihiko defy both their families and kitsune (fox fairy) tradition by getting married. Then an evil magician kills Norihiko, steals his soul, and reforges it into a sword. Hikaru seeks the sword, determined
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Last Friday, I finished the first draft of my seventeenth novel. *boggles* *boggles some more* I must admit I love this age we live in, when I can write what I want and publish it and trust that readers will find it. My sales continue to improve. (I figure my craft is improving as well,
I just finished the last book in the trilogy, A Sword’s Poem!!!!! YAY! HUZZAH!!! The three combined are over 100,000 words. They will all grow significantly as well during the “make it not broke” phase, as all three are pretty broken currently. But still. I wrote the last chapter this morning. Am very pleased and
One of the posts I read years ago that was very influential for me was by Rachel Aaron, an author, and how she went from writing 2000 words a day to 10,000 words a day. Do I write 10,000 words a day? Oh hell no. Possibly, maybe, I could build up to that kind of
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I know I have other things to chat about. But this is on my mind. A Sword’s Poem was the historic fantasy I’d planned on writing after I’d finished The Jaguar and the Wolf. I’ve actually written the first 19K words. The main character loses her mate in the first chapter, then is in denial