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So it’s the credits of Les Miz and I’m trying to dry my face off discreetly with my scarf, and two women in front of me are chatting cheerfully.  I decide that they are Martians.  Then three women are talking about escaping their kids and going to Les Miz.  They call it La Miz and […]

  The Mighty Mountain of Theornin by De Kenyon Astra knows what she’s good at: thieving, tricking, and hitting people with rocks. Especially the mayor’s bullying son, after he makes fun of her. She also knows what she’s not good at: being a girl. Not the kind of girl that lives in the tiny mountain

Okay, granted, it’s a crappy title for this blog post.  It kind of assumes that I know what I’m talking about, that I’ve got a bunch of answers, and that’s not what I mean.  What I mean is, I felt like writing an essay.  And this was the essay that was on my mind: when

This story’s exclusive to Amazon for now.  Click here to check it out; it’s free for now if you have Amazon Prime. The Boy Who Would Not Sleep by De Kenyon In the woods, Nickolas’s father tells him stories to pass the time as they cut down trees…but one story, he won’t tell. Not until Nickolas

I just finished Elizabeth Barone’s first novel, ABNA Quarterfinalist Sade on the Wall, a few days ago, and I’m still trying to put it in enough of a framework to write an intelligent review of it. In short, it’s about a teen, Sade (sha-day), who has to find a way to deal with her best friend

As I’ve been chewing my way through regencies lately (I’m just starting to read romances and have lately gone nuts over them), I’ve been trying to scope out their structure on a basic level: where’s the midpoint?  When do the characters go into the strange world?  When do they go into the final conflict? I’ve

All, I’m giving away a signed copy of the new Exotics 1 softcover.  You can sign up here, at Goodreads; the giveaway ends on December 2.  Pleeeeeeeeeease sign up!

A lot of beginning NaNoWriMo writers get stuck due to poor planning.  “Oh!  I’m just going to sit down and write!” One of the solutions to that problem is to look at structure.  The idea that you can plot out what you’re going to write next offends some people: what if your work isn’t that

Here it is, the new cover by Martha Lancaster!  So sweet. As soon as the POD goes live (I’m waiting to check the proof), I’ll set up a contest on Goodreads.  Right now, I’m finishing up the last book in the series…I’m waiting to see if I need to make any changes to fit the whole

I was reading Syd Field’s Going to the Movies: A Personal Journey through Four Decades of Modern Film in the bathtub, accompanied by a cold mug of tea and an even colder but faster-to-disappear cherry milkshake, when I came across something and knew I couldn’t stay in the tub any longer. He’s talking to Robert