…I’m totally changing them. Maybe. Okay, and not totally — just rearranging some of the scenes to give the opening more oomph. I think oomph is good. But still basically the same, as far as content goes — and if I can make it work. I hadn’t intended to change those chapters all that much, […]
Congratulations to Cherie, Julia and Holly! Cherie and Julia won a copy of Demon Angel, and I’ll be sending Holly the ARC of Demon Moon as soon as they land in my lap. Thanks to everyone who participated! If you missed it, this is what we did: Missy gave some advice to authors. I gave […]
In my THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND post about “pantsing†at The Good, The Bad, and the Unread, romblogreader had this question: As you progress through writing and revising your second and third novels, have you remained as much of a “pantser†as you were for the first? Has the preliminary stage of writing changed […]
So, I finished the Doyen Scrolls page (although I’ll update it with additional info and subjects later, and also a timeline and links to make navigation through the page easier). Initially, I was just going to have a long, boring-ass explanation of the background, what a Gift was, why free will is important, things like […]
I have ripped apart my proposal for the third time now — this will be my last time. I was allowing myself some leeway with time while the agent stuff was all squared away, but now that I’ve got the agent/author agreement and am sending it out and everything’s official, I need to give her […]
Demon Moon is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com. I’ve included a non-spoilery snippet of dialogue after the jump, just because all of the awesome reviews of the new James Bond are making me craaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzyyyyyyyyy and I probably won’t see it until it hits DVD. Thanksgiving was spent in Dallas (OR) at my mother’s house […]
So, DEMON MOON has a page at Amazon.com (I’ve been checking pretty much daily so that I can put the link up on the website) an ISBN, and an estimated page count (I imagine someone takes the manuscript and word count and sends the estimated final page count with the initial info). 480pp. *headdesk* DEMON […]
The one big huge request I had on the cover was totally honored. I sent about seven pages of pictures and character and story notes for the art department, and suggestions, and they included a lot of it, but the most important one was this (after a long paragraph about how Colin’s clothes are ridiculously […]
God, I love my job. Okay, and check it out: her outfit matches the new colors on my website and blog. 😯 What’re the chances? :boggle:
I’m at the point where I’m really, really getting into the new story (but mostly in my head). I’ve got pages filled with notes about the story and the series, but not much in the writing department yet (ETA: I just saw that Marjorie Liu describes a method very similar to what I did to […]