Books I was recommended: Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh The Silence, by Tim Lebbon The Well-Fed Writer, by Peter Bowerman This list is shorter than I like, but I do have permission to ask Jonathan Maberry for some good action/horror titles. Book to Study: The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler, as per Laura Hayden’s mystery […]
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Still scrambling and running behind, but the end is in sight… … Okay. If you have a fashion sense or do costuming, ignore this. This is not for you. You’re a writer, and you’re going to a writer function. How do you dress? It seems like some writers have this down, in a way that
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I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. … Her Body and Other Parties is a collection of short stories that centers around the horrific in a kind of fairy-tale way.
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I lost a major client (his sales died before the first of my books for him came out waaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!) and am slammed with other things at the moment, so I’m probably going to be a bit spotty until May. But I had to get this off my chest. … I have been struggling with the
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