Silence of the busy
I’ve been woefully silent here of late. I’ve spent the last week teaching in Colorado. I’ve got another week to go, plus the Writing the Rockies conference. Been sleeping okay, so that’s good, but today I felt quite unwell. No…
A snippet from the WIP
I very much doubt this will make the final version of this nameless book. And yet, I love this so much I have to share. It is wrong. So, so, so, wrong: Lately my dreams had been divided equally between…
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…
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…
things that happen while plotting
Plotting next Crosspointe book. Again. Some things that have arisen, and yes, these were said out loud to me by me because I can talk out loud to myself. Why? Also, the plotting music started out as Mumford and Sons…
On Crosspointe
I had an ugly realization the other day that I’d forgotten some serious developments in The Hollow Crown and had neglected to account for them in plotting out the next Crosspointe book. Bad. Very bad. I’ve been rereading the past…
so far so
I finished the re-issue edits for The Black Ship. Not a lot of changes overall, but fixing scan errors and some clunkiness. I still like this book a lot. It looks like Trace of Magic will be available August 1.…