Since I hit my word count for the week, we had brunch–at Volterra. Until a week ago I didn’t actually know Volterra served brunch. I knew it was a very good Italian restaurant in Ballard, known for its oil soup (which is better than it sounds, and perhaps better than it has any business being). But […]
Woo-hoo! While helping the husband move cubicles (or rather, after helping the husband move cubicles and while waiting for him to hook up the complicated monstrosity that is his workstation), I came from behind and hit my word count. Which is almost unbelievable. After one day of incredible fatigue, one day of a much-later-than-expected social […]
Today is the official start of my race to 90,000 words in my new project for Wizards of the Coast. 750 words a day and a “seed count” of 3750 (that is, the prologue, etc., I fiddled with to work out my character interactions–that took it’s own sweet time, and I don’t count it). As I said before, […]
I’ve written already about outlining. In brief, it isn’t a natural process for me though I like having an outline, I don’t like writing an outline. The novel I’m writing for 2011 is still in the outlining phase, for reasons I can’t go into yet. Suffice it to say, due to circumstances beyond my control […]
Oh, I’m here. Blogging again is weird. It’s deeply intimidating. I don’t even know if anyone reads this. But, I’m making an effort. So here are some topics: 1. What am I reading? For work, I have two books going: a first draft of Sandstorm by Christopher Rowe and a final of The Fading Dream by […]
I don’t actually know how many copies of my book shipped to individual bookstores. My guess is that it’s pretty variable. But I went to Borders to see it and they were sold out. So I went to the B&N, where there were two copies. Kevin and Noah bought them both. The bookseller promised more […]
The folks at BSC Review gave me a chance to write a post for them. I was so excited I wrote two. The first one just went up (well, “just” to me…vacation time): a humorous piece on outlining. You can read it here. It’s a very cool site–all kinds of posts on books, movies, TV, life, […]
Can’t decide whether to buy Realms of the Dead? Can’t decide whether you’re–as my sister put it–bitter about having to own The God Catcher? (She’s not anymore) Can’t decide whether you’re willing to give tie-in fiction a try? My story from Relams of the Dead,“The Resurrection Agent” is up on wizards.com as a promotion for the […]
Tonight I’m prepping myself to film a Book Nook (With Marty Durham) tomorrow. I’ve got a list of questions, my husband’s suggestion I try to talk less with my hands, and a nagging feeling I’d feel better doing this with a sheet over my head. I’ll post when the final product goes up! In the mean […]
I’ve just been apprised that @WotC_Novels has tweeted about my blog. so if you came here from there: welcome (If you came from somewhere else, welcome too).