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July
1
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State of the Writer, July 2012 (Canada Day) edition

Posted in DAW, Essalieyan, Queen of the Dead, self-publishing, writing.

First: Battle has been turned in to my editor at DAW. It is not finished in the sense that it is now a book — she’ll read it, and she’ll make notes of the things that don’t work or are not clear enough, and I’ll do a revi­sion pass to correct the things I can address. After which, it will go out to a copy-editor and from there, to produc­tion, which will then print out galley pages, which come back to me. This makes me cry (and I apol­o­gize in advance because I know I whine a bit on twitter when I am proof-reading). There is nothing worse than reading your own books looking only for your mistakes, typos, etc. All of the good things become invis­ible: you’re left with the … Continue reading →

May
16
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State of the Writer, May 2012 edition

Posted in Books, Cast, DAW, Elantra, Essalieyan, Queen of the Dead, writing.

I have been fighting a rear­guard action against a sinus infec­tion for the past two weeks, and I am at that stage where any move­ment of my head — at all — is Very Unpleasant. This has killed Yoga for the past week, and I am there­fore feeling slug­gish. But! Cast in Peril’s copy-edits went back to Luna last week. I just got email informing me that the page proofs are on the way, and should arrive tomorrow. Those are the last things I have to review before the book is out of my hands — at least until author’s copies arrive. The title of the next Cast novel is: Cast in Sorrow. I may have mentioned, some time back, that I had written 50k works of Touch, the follow up to Silence … Continue reading →

May
1
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This is Bookday for SILENCE

Posted in DAW, Queen of the Dead.

Silence is now out in the wilds (in theory). It’s May 1st. Book days are always both exciting and nerve-wracking: Exciting because book! Nerve-wracking because the book – and my writing of it – is finally open to public scrutiny. Some people will love it. Some people will hate it. There’s always a little bit of fear lurking in the midst of the excite­ment — both are genuine. What I can say about Silence is that it’s the first of three books, it’s contem­po­rary fantasy, and it doesn’t — I’m sorry — have much in the way of romance in it. It’s the Michelle version of a ghost story. It has a cover I adore, by artist Cliff Nielsen. The book jacket is a bit of (a lot of) a spoiler, so if you haven’t read it and you … Continue reading →

April
20
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Welcome!

Posted in Miscellaneous, DAW, Queen of the Dead.

This is my new home on the web. It has, among other things, a home page — which is largely meant for people who surf by and want infor­ma­tion, rather than inter­ac­tion. I couldn’t actu­ally figure out how to transfer the blog subscriber list from the word​press​.com blog to this one, so if you want to continue to get email alerts when a new post goes up, you’ll need to subscribe here. I have a new Face­book page — which is on the sidebar. I have a Tumblr account which I’ve never really used, and I’m consid­ering using it for ques­tions & answers — as in, I’ll answer ques­tions there if they’re asked. I’ll also continue to answer ques­tions here. I have a new email address: michelle@​michellesagara.​com. And I have a new book, due on the first … Continue reading →