Category Archives: writing
Very early February, granted. I have finished Shards of Glass and have submitted it to my editor at Mira, which means it’s not technically finished until revisions have been requested and completed. This gives me a needed mental break from a book that was almost two weeks late, so I can return to it with a less panicked and more objective frame of mind. When I say “more objective” this is on the scale of writer neurosis, so keep that in mind :). While I wait on editorial input for two books, I have started the ramp up to writing two books; I have more of a head start on the West novel, but will take at least a week to reread all of Sun Sword and make notes. I tend, in real life, to forget … Continue reading →
First: December. I finished the first draft of Hunter’s Redoubt on the 24th of December – in time to panic about Christmas tree & presents & Christmas eve dinner. It’s 303k words long, so… the longest first book in any series I’ve written T_T. It has gone off to the editor. Hopefully, it will go off to artist, too. I did not finish Shards of Glass, but I’m working on that now, in the lull between submitting a draft and getting editorial feedback. My hope was to work on both books at the same time – as I do for most of a book’s life. But usually when I hit the end of a book, I put the other on pause. I eventually had to do that with this one, because the end of a book eats all … Continue reading →
It’s October 2022, and at the end of November, 2022, Cast in Eternity will be published. It was a book written entirely during Covid lockdown. I wonder if, a decade from now, I’ll remember that as clearly. I’m mostly hoping I won’t. I try to post the first chapter of an upcoming book a month before release day. So: this is the post for that. The first chapter of Cast in Eternity is here, but you can also find it on the bibliography page for the CAST novels. *** I am continuing to write, both Sagara and West words. The Sagara words are for the as yet untitled Magic School book — but I am sad to say that my Magic School book is … not quite what I thought it … Continue reading →
I think I missed an August update =/. Life has been a bit busier than usual, with the usual blend of good and ugh. Good: My father celebrated his 88th birthday. We had a private room at a restaurant, but it’s the first time since February 2020 that I’ve eaten inside any restaurant whatsoever. Less good: I developed a retinal tear; it’s been fixed (laser), and yesterday’s followup appointment was all positive – but it took twelve hours for the dilating eyedrops to wear off. Usual writer variant less good: the Magic School book which I was so looking forward to writing has been eating my lunch, but apparently leaving me with All The Calories >.<. I have several chapters written but think I have to nuke the latest one. Which is better … Continue reading →
I hadn’t realized that it’s been almost three months since I posted here T_T. Things on the homefront have been hectic. There are no disasters or tragedies, but I had copy-edits, a book review column, and my brother and sister visiting (sister from LA, and she’s still here). I did get copy-edits back on time, I did get the book review column done — and then spent FIVE DAYS trying to get the column from iCloud to gmail. This… did not work. My text mails were fine, my 64k .rtf column attachment was not. I have no idea why; I don’t know if it’s the name of the attachment, etc — but it’s the same naming convention I’ve always used. I tend to be a bit over-focused when something is going wrong on … Continue reading →
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