I am so excited to announce all sorts of good stuff! First of all, there’s going to be MORE JANE TRUE! Orbit has bought Jane True, Books 4, 5, and 6. Don’t ask me what they’re going to be called,…
Category: Writing Process
Let’s Talk About Sex . . . Again
I am, once again, to be found in the internetz talking about the sex. In a professional capacity, por su puesto. Please come on over, comment, and let me know if there’s some issues about sex and mainstream publishing you’d…
That Ubiquitous New Year’s Post…
I wasn’t going to do a New Year’s post, because I am, of course, ornery about New Year’s. (In case you haven’t noticed, I’m ornery over just about everything) So why am I ornery about New Year’s? It’s because I…
Just a quickie . . .
I went to Dallas on Tuesday to see Glasvegas, and the COOLEST thing happened, ever. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Glasvegas. But I’m a bit obsessed at the mo’ with a band called Ida Maria. They’re Norwegian.…
Defining Voice: On Personality and Prose
Yesterday, on Twitter, author Toni McGee Causey retweeted a link to a great blog post on “voice” by Allison Brennan. (For those of you who don’t speak Twitter, just run with me. 😉 ) Anyway, Brennan’s post made me think about…
Revisions Diary: Day ONE MILLION AND SHOOT ME
Yeah, I’m still revising. The same book I was revising before. Basically, I fixed everything my editor wanted me to fix, and in doing so I uncovered everything else that also needed to be fixed, but that had been slightly…
Tracking the Tempest Revisions Diary: Vlog on my NNB
So here’s me talking about my Near Nervous Breakdown regarding my revisions. Okay, it only lasted twenty minutes, so it’s really not that serious. The important part is how I got over it and what I think others can take…
Tracking the Tempest Revisions Diary: Day Gark (and some other stuff)
I have no idea what day it is in my revisions. I could sit down and count, but I’m not going to. Instead I’m going to refer to it as “gark,” because that’s the noise I make when I look…
Tracking the Tempest Revisions Diary: Day 16
This week was AWESOME, work wise. I’m on chapter 11, so I’ve basically finished the first third of major rewriting I had to do, which included quite a few whole chapters or sections that needed written from scratch. I think…
Tracking the Tempest Revisions Diary: Day 12
As I was in NOLA, stuffing my face, over the last weekend, we skipped from Day 6 to Day 12 here in Revisions Paradise. The good thing is that my trip was actually really productive, workwise, and it was also…