I’m not the world’s most prolific guest poster, but someone asked me about it, so I’ll ramble about what I know… As an author, if you’re writing a guest post, there are some unspoken rules of etiquette that I will speak of, because I’m all about speaking about the generally unspeakable: TMI! In brief: Write […]
Starting the 9th, leave a comment over at Avery Olive’s website to be entered into a drawing for many, many different books, ebooks, journals, gift cards–lots of STUFF. My book, Tales Told Under the Covers, is part of the drawing for December 14, so leave a comment then 🙂
Thank you for the excellent comments. Updates…still need to get the non-swirly version; I may be getting a new wolf silhouette from my friend Asia’s Dark Moon Farm & Kennels…she has a husky who likes to sing, she says 🙂
I’ve been thinking about fantasy novels, having written a lot about mirrors lately during NaNoWriMo (via Through the Looking-Glass). What is fantasy? A reflection, either internal or external, of something real. But I was noticing that different types of fantasy have different, I don’t know, lengths (and complexity) of reflection. How far away is Urban Fantasy
Today will be a brilliant day in which I squint at my muse a lot. # The last day of NaNoWriMo. Didn't sleep last night due to (I think) the SoBe I drank at the mall. Stupid inadvertent allergic energy drinks. # I made it yesterday! I still have the epilogue to finish, but I
All, I’m working on a cover for the next De Kenyon book, the first in a middle-grade series. Please give me comments! The genre is an adventure/spy story with lots of magic and animals, modern day. (I may add a tagline later.) The last version, everybody had a problem with the font. Here’s the deal:
Now that I’ve finished NaNoWriMo2011, I’m going to switch gears: to editing. I find that my enjoyment of editing swings back and forth; usually what happens is that I hate it until I’m in the middle of it, and then I enjoy it until I get sick of it, and then I hate it again.
I would make a terrible demoness. Here it is, nearly Christmas,* and I haven’t managed to tease out what the members of my family want other than in bare dribs and drabs. Is it being raised Midwestern that has made Lee and I this way? “Oh, whatever”? And have we passed this horrible curse of
I would make a terrible demoness. Here it is, nearly Christmas,* and I haven’t managed to tease out what the members of my family want other than in bare dribs and drabs. Is it being raised Midwestern that has made Lee and I this way? “Oh, whatever”? And have we passed this horrible curse of
If you finished your National Novel Writing Month writing project–group hug! If you wrote 50K but you didn’t actually finish your novel–group hug! If you met your goals, whatever they were, even if they didn’t involve 50K–group hug! If you didn’t finish but wrote a lot–group hug! If you didn’t finish and didn’t get much
