…last night for about two hours. And I thought, why not watch a movie? And I was too lazy to go out to Blockbuster, so I went through the new ones On Demand, and made myself decide between Wanted (which I’d already seen, but enjoyed, so I knew I wouldn’t mind watching it again) and […]
Since the hair pulling came up on twitter, this is an example of what I’m talking about: “If you win your fight to understand me, perhaps you will tell me why, after all of these years, it is you. You, with your way of looking down upon me, and with your raw pride.” Her hand […]
…just fell into place. Now I’m not fighting him any more, but it means some rewriting (but not too much, whoo hoo, because the key emotional elements are already there.) This was one of those things that you KNOW is there, lingering in the back of your head regarding motivation, and you KNOW something is […]
There are other great inspirational pieces up today. Something big happened today, I guess 😀 *cough*like my dad’s 62nd birthday and I didn’t get him a present*cough* So, today I was standing in line at the coffee shop, and a woman (#1) was standing behind me. Another woman and a man come in (we’ll call […]
I make a little soundtrack for each book, but this one … well, I haven’t been in the car as much (I can’t write while listening to music, so the soundtrack is for when I’m doing other stuff (usually driving)) and the one I did make at the beginning of the book has disappeared (and […]
My 2008 releases Demon Night, “Thicker Than Blood,” and Demon Bound have been showing up on “Best of…” lists — and I just want to take this opportunity to say Thank you! to everyone who has tried the series. This is the best job in the world, but I couldn’t be doing it if readers […]
(I haven’t read the book in question, but it reminded me of something from my last batch of copy-edits.) In the original draft of DEMON BOUND, Jake has this line (talking to Drifter about Alice’s husband): Husband? More like a cocksucking crybaby. Copy edits came back and it looked like this: Husband? More like a […]
I’ve dropped in on The Book Smugglers today to celebrate Smugglivus with them. I’m not airing my grievances or performing any Feats of Strength … but there is a link to a Thundercats video. Oh, and a chance to win DEMON BOUND.
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Irena is in a paragraph where she realizes her attitude is making the other Guardians nervous, and she’s describing their reactions. Drifter’s is: Drifter had aimed for casual by hooking his thumbs into his suspenders, but he wouldn’t have aimed for anything if he didn’t think he might have to fire. Is it clear that […]
Romance Novel TV is having a Virgin Heroes Week, with several posts already featuring Linnea Sinclair, Ward, Campbell, and others. I have a soft spot for virgin heroes, of course — especially the eight-hundred-year-old ones and the demons who deflower them. One of the interesting questions that came up was if the male de-virgining was […]
So today, I struggled mightily with a scene. It’s one of those scenes that need to be there (also known as the CHARACTERS EXPLAIN TO SOMEONE WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE LAST BOOKS SO THAT THE READER CAN ALSO CATCH UP scene). In books like mine, there comes a point early where I have to […]
I used to do this a lot more (through all of DEMON ANGEL and DEMON MOON) — have my daily and weekly word count/goals updated in a spreadsheet, along with a graph (that is terrible to see when you have less than half the book done), percentage done (I set it high — 150K — […]
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I haven’t written a character like this before. It’s an interesting balance — because her anger can’t always come out violently and she can’t always be surly, or it would be hard to care about her romance or her story (I think angry heroes have it easier than angry heroines). So it’s shaping a lot […]