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 […]
Heh. Like I know anything about that. But here are the things I can’t do without (or would rather not do without) when I’m writing: Like, no-brainer, right? I like the laptop because often I can’t work at home. I take the tot to the in-laws, and sit down at the nearest Starbucks (where they […]
I was dying for a good thriller/horror read, but not an overly depressing one — but I was having some trouble getting into Koontz’s ODD THOMAS (I think because of the first person narrator, which doesn’t always bother me, and I really like the voice, but for some reason just wasn’t dragging me in) so […]
First: have you entered the contest yet? Okay, so one of the FAQs I see on other authors’ sites a lot is “where do you get your ideas?” and usually the answer is “everywhere, nowhere, the ether, my muse,” and etc. Sometimes, there’s a specific story to go along with it: a first line, a […]
First: have you entered the contest yet? Okay, so one of the FAQs I see on other authors’ sites a lot is “where do you get your ideas?” and usually the answer is “everywhere, nowhere, the ether, my muse,” and etc. Sometimes, there’s a specific story to go along with it: a first line, a […]
So, between the reviews at DearAuthor.com and Rosario’s Reading Journal, along with comments I’ve read at SBTB and other places, I’ve been dying to pick up the Archangel series by Sharon Shinn. Except I’m too weenie. There are some things I don’t let myself read when I’m writing. J.D. Robb is one; her voice is […]
So, I was going through the galley proofs and entering the changes I’d written on the page into my MS Word manuscript — 65 of the pages needed changes. Some of the changes were dates and numbers. One of the things I realized (after copy-editing) was that a secondary character’s age needed to be reduced […]
Tara Marie has an interesting post regarding a discussion that has been circulating on a few sites — about taking risks in the genre. I’m kind of over there, writing way too much…because it’s a lot more interesting than Starbucks.
A recent post by Diana Chamberlain at RTB discussed her adventures at Starbucks. I’m one of those writers*. The baristas have my drink ready when I come in; my regular seat may as well have MELJEAN written on it. I resisted it for a while (didn’t need it for a long time, because I worked […]
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 […]
Rosario just wrote a review of the HOT SPELL anthology (coming in mass market in November, if you don’t want to splurge on a trade /end shameless promo). As with most anthologies, the reviews are mixed, but she did really like Falling for Anthony — woot! As I said above, this one was really, really […]
“… I have besides a personal dislike to ‘Poets,’ and the little acquaintance I have with them would by no means induce me to divulge my secrets.” –Colin Ames-Beaumont, in a letter to John Polidori, January 1816.** I found THE MONSTERS: MARY SHELLY AND THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN in Fred Meyer’s today, while purchasing a […]
**Originally posted here** MÃ ili had an excellent bitch kitty rant about the inability to find a standalone book lately; all the books out there seem to be part of a series. This is a problem that I have, too — it’s almost impossible to find a book that I can take home and read (my […]
**Originally posted here** MÃ ili had an excellent bitch kitty rant about the inability to find a standalone book lately; all the books out there seem to be part of a series. This is a problem that I have, too — it’s almost impossible to find a book that I can take home and read (my […]
**originally posted here** First, there’s an excellent ATBF column that confronts issues of racism in publishing, marketing, and the reading of romance over at AAR. Second, Candy of Smart Bitches has a rant In Defense of Girly Men over at SBTB that is generating a lot of comments I haven’t had time to read through […]
**originally posted here** AKA The blog entry on historical accuracy that doesn’t say anything you haven’t heard before, and is really more of a cry of despair and a rant and something else that I’m not sure how to talk about. So, I’ve got a part of this book set in 1217 England. My characters […]