Brimstone Angels is now available for pre-order from Amazon. If you look for Brimstone Angels on B&N’s website at this point you get this. Rrow. Which reminds me of this blog post I read on Jezebel the other day about nudity on magazine covers. (possibly NSFW depending on how conservative your company is). I don’t […]
(Writing advice is something I’m afraid this blog is always going to have a fair amount of. When I don’t know what to write about, I tend to want to write about writing. On the one hand, I’m almost embarrassed by the fact that my default mode is to tell other people their business. One […]
Start with a working title: The Tiefling Book. This is just to put on the editor’s schedule and to discuss in meetings. Once you are definitely writing the book, it will have a second name for contract purposes which will either be your last name or the name of the series (in this case “Planetouched […]
Every night it seems, as soon as I’ve laid my head down and started to drift, a thought runs through my head: “I didn’t blog today.” I had plenty of reasons, sure–work, writing, some editing on the side, house chores, that one really addictive internet site–but the guilt that inevitably forces its way through all […]
You may have noticed I haven’t posted in a long time. I’ve been locked in a fierce—perhaps mortal—battle for my sanity, wrestling the first draft of Brimstone Angels into submission. Now, I return victorious! Now, when I say I was in a fierce battle for my sanity, understand, I don’t mean the book is bad, […]
I’m having lunch with my sister today and she asks how things are going. “Terrible,” I say. “I hate my book.” “Aw!” she says. She’s read a few excerpts over my shoulder. “Why?” I launch into an explanation of my main character’s radically shifting voice (to my perspective). She doesn’t agree. In fact, she’s giving […]
Go here. Scroll down to “Gaming-RelatedFiction.” Be giddy with me. Alternate titles for this post: I Miss the Book Department’s Subscription to Locus Why Googling Yourself is Healthy HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, DID SOMEONE BUY CASES OF THE GOD CATCHER TO BUILD A SCHOOL IN HAITI OUT OF!? The Month I Sold Better Than R.A. […]
As a part of my severance package, Wizards of the Coast provided me with some lovely job counseling sessions to help me find my way back into the job market. Granted, I decided to skirt the market, but going to these meetings was instrumental in my decision that I really ought to go for the […]
1. It is psychologically more satisfying to treat penny slots as really odd arcade games, than as sources of wealth. If you play with the goal of playing the wacky mini-games, it’s much more fun because you are never going to win anything exciting. 2. You can make a slot machine themed as anything: […]
I’m at the airport, getting ready to board a plane (one of my least favorite things ever). And although it’s the weekend of GenCon Indy, sadly, that’s not where I’m heading. In fact, I may be heading to the “Reversed” GenCon: Las Vegas. In Tarot, when cards are dealt upside down, they’re termed “reversed.” In […]