I announced on Twitter Saturday night what’s wrong with my current WIP. I’ve been stalling on it for weeks now, not quite understanding why I couldn’t get the story to unfold. Based on my projected 40K word count, I’d passed the halfway point and I don’t know about you, but for me, that’s when the [...]
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March 9th 2010
is away! I heard about a call for a print anthology just a little over a week before the deadline. Since they only accepted submissions via snail mail (Really?! Is it 2010 or what? Sheesh.), that gave me about three and a half days to write something between 6 and 10K.
As I do the vast [...]
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February 23rd 2010
#sixsunday. This is from a new WIP tentatively entitled “With A Cherry On Top”. (BBW/IR)
“Have you looked closely at that picture?” She snorted. “That woman can’t weight more than a hundred and five pounds, dripping wet. You can’t trust a skinny cook.”
His eyes devoured her in a head to toe sweep that would have made [...]
Filed under Works in Progress Posted on February 21st 2010
Borrowed from @sara_brookes, I’m going to start posting very tiny snippets from my works in progress. (BTW, make sure you pick up Sara’s Flash of Dark. I loved this book!)
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Still not looking at him, she hesitated but nodded.
“Jazzy, don’t run from me.”
“I won’t,” she answered softly.
Not at all satisfied, but having little [...]
Filed under Works in Progress Posted on February 7th 2010
My #NaNoWriMo plot has changed. For the past week or so, a wicked plot has been plaguing my thoughts, so I figure now is as good a time as any to start working on it. Face it, the story from last year, No Greater Joy, has *sat there* for literally a year now. If I [...]
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October 22nd 2009
I haven’t done one of these posts in a while, but here’s a little insight on what I’m up to lately. I’ve been asked to do revisions on Interdependence, but I’m still pondering the changes I need to make. The editor’s comments were encouraging and one of my other publishers has asked to take a [...]
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October 10th 2009
Can you keep a secret? Here’s a little one for you, then… I’m working on a story for an anthology with a couple of other authors. And so far, it’s awesome as all hell. I can’t wait to be able to tell you more about it. Until then, mum’s the word. Got it?
Filed under Works in Progress Posted on July 2nd 2009
I don’t have a single sub out there. Everything’s been contracted. Go me.
Although this is supposed to be great news, something tells me I better start writing faster.
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April 21st 2009
It’s hard to believe that I’ve only been writing for just over a year now. Every day, every publisher, every editor is a lesson for me and I cherish them all. Lately, I’ve been working on how to write better blurbs for my stories (next up, better titles). When Dark Forest Nights became a best-seller [...]
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On Writing
Works in Progress
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April 7th 2009
L. Shannon sparked the idea for today’s post when she and I were discussing her blogging habits. (*ahem* Shannon!) She once wrote about attraction to sociopaths and the conversation actually went along with something I’d already been plotting for the final book in THE CRAFT OF THE WISE series.
In DRAWING DOWN THE MOON, my hero [...]
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December 27th 2008
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