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Making your serial killer – handout
For the PDF: serial-brochure-web Just back from RT, and I got a request for the handout I used in the “Making your serial a killer” panel (which was awesome). Here is the handout — it was originally a tri-fold brochure, but I rearranged the panels so they’re more easily read in JPEG form. YOU CAN CLICK […]
Updates (or not) to the release schedule
I’ve gotten a bunch of emails this week about my 2015 release schedule, and my “Upcoming” page was sadly stuck in 2014, so I (kind of) updated that page, finally. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot to tell you yet. Anyway, you don’t have to click over to that page — here is what I wrote. Scheduled […]
Authors Are Filthy Thieves! + the Iron Seas storyline (is there one?)
There’s a guest post and giveaway up at Paranormal Haven! It’s all about how authors are dirty thieves (okay, so it’s really more of a where-do-you-get-your-ideas post) but there’s also a giveaway! You get a chance to win any one of the Iron Seas books, including The Kraken King! Stephanie also posted her review of […]
How BIG is The Kraken King? (Word Count + Story Length)
Okay, yeah, that title is a total tease. But I’ve gotten several e-mails from readers asking me about the length of the story parts, because there is concern about how much story they are going to get. That’s fair; I should have listed this before. I would want to know what I’m paying for, too. […]
What do you consider a cliffhanger?
A little while ago on my “Serials are a feature, not a bug” post, Jen Twimom mentioned as part of a larger comment that: I have never been a fan of serials because I do NOT like cliffhangers. So I reassured her that there were no cliffhangers in my serial, except: there might be one […]
The Abominable Worm Round Up + Excerpt for Part III
Did you survive Part II? The abominable worm has struck! And as xidtrebor says: @Meljean It’s not the size of the worm, it’s how it wiggles. #KrakenKingpart2 — Robert Dix (@xidtrebor) April 23, 2014 Reviews and Links! I’m making an effort to link to as many reviews on blogs/sites that I can — and of […]
The serial as a feature, not a bug (The Kraken King FAQs)
By emails I’ve received and just general rumblings on the internet, I’ve picked up a sense that some readers feel they are being punished by the serial release in some way — that if they are buying the serial, the price and format is their punishment. If they buy the compiled print version, the wait […]
Carol Anne! Don’t go into the light!
My Laptop I wish it was a poltergeist. *headdesk* Yay for having to get a new laptop. But really. This is the worst possible time. There are SO MANY things to re-install and files to move. *cry*
Guardian Series Retrospective #4 – DEMON ANGEL, Part 2
Re-Reading DEMON ANGEL Okay, well — the tl;dr version of what follows is: I still really like it, but I wish I could clean up a lot of the writing and make some of the worldbuilding stuff clearer for readers. This isn’t going to be a review with a plot summary or anything. I’m going […]
Guardian Series Retrospective #3 — DEMON ANGEL, Part 1
Writing DEMON ANGEL DEMON ANGEL’s place in the Guardian series This was the first novel published in the Guardian series and the first story that I began working on, but it wasn’t the first one published. That was Falling for Anthony (you can see those retrospective posts here). But this was the story that started […]
Where’s Meljean?
It’s that time again. I’ll be heading into my cave to finish this book. I might pop out again if I receive the Guardian Demon cover (I saw a rough sketch of the artwork, and I’m kind of dying of happiness — so no doubt I’ll be posting it within 1.2 seconds of seeing it […]
Riveted is Available in the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand!
Today is the release day for the Berkley UK edition of RIVETED! This has one of my favorite covers ever. The same story is inside, however — and I hope you all enjoy it! Angus & Robertson | Amazon UK | The Book Depository fishpond | Waterstones | Whitcoulls
Stock Photo of the Day — Search: Angry Grandma
So, this one actually has a story behind it (told on Twitter.) In my last post about ‘good things on the Internet,’ I mentioned something about people Google stalking, and of course that was in reference to the “Stop the GR Bullies” site that popped up in the last week. Anyway, Stacia Kane posted a […]
The difference between “passive voice” and using “was.”
Grammar Girl has a fine post about it here, but here is the bit I see confused over and over and over and OVER whenever I see an online critique: A lot of people think all sentences that contain a form of the verb “to be” are in passive voice, but that isn’t true. For […]
Hot Spell – Giveaway
And, since this is apparently going to be “Falling for Anthony” week on the blog, I’ll give away two copies of the book. “Falling for Anthony” In Regency England, a desperate lady is Falling for Anthony when a childhood friend comes back from the dead to protect her brother from an unnatural evil. Read an […]