Must do a Giveaway!!!!
Look what I got in the mail today!!! The book is gorgeous. You have no idea. I’ve updated the information page on it with the updated first chapter. So it seems to me I need to give some away. I’m…
The wild book in progress
This is from Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life. It’s my go-to book when writing becomes thorny. Here’s where I’m at now. She says it so well. I do not so much write a book as sit up with it,…
the dogs, they shed so MUCH
They keep sending tufts of fur out like porcupine quills. I have dog-hair dust dinosaurs. They are growing. And growing. We had our first hummingbird on the feeder today. I’m very excited. It showed up at dinner time. I hope…
Book Pricing
It’s come to my attention that the paper versions of Shadow City and Blood Winter have now become much more expensive. As in, around $22 dollars. I feel like I need to address this. First, you should know that I…
Happy Solstice
When I was in Montana, I found this day to be a very melancholy day. Even though the hottest days of summer were ahead, this was always this beginning of the slide into winter, which would begin in September frequently,…
what to say?
I was going to post something interesting and useful and entertaining today. Sadly, I got nothing. Today is my birthday. I was asked by my children not to get up on time, but to wait until they came for me.…
writing frustration and the barf boy
I’m frustrated with the writing. I’m not capturing the voice the way I want to, and I feel like there’s a lot of talking heads in this scene and not enough going on. I figure it’s likely to get cut…
A funny thing
One of the things that has changed for me since leaving Montana is that I don’t leave the house to go to work. I go other places, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t leave to go to work. Therefore,…
See? I can learn a lesson if I want to
Last night while either trying to fall asleep, or after having woken up, I had couple of writing epiphanies about the next Tracer book. I turned on the light and wrote them down. This morning I’d forgotten one of them.…
fish and barf
yeah, that’s a hell of a title, isn’t it? Why must blogs be titled? I suck at titles. The man took the kids fishing this weekend while I worked. On Sunday, they caught 15 trout. I don’t like fish. Don’t…