New post up on the Darkness and Good blog. This one… eh. This one is. Read more:Practising In Public, Or, I Have A Book Coming Out in May :3A MOMENT OF ROSES & SUNSHINE CH 12A MOMENT OF ROSES & SUNSHINE CH 10
When We Know Better Read More »
So you’re reading along in your story, and you think things are going great. You even make it all the way to the end, and there was just that one typo that needed fixing. The plot makes sense, it’s kind of funny, and now, it’s cleanly written. No flab, no superfluous anything. It’s great.So off
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So, I can’t believe I’m posting this for you, but anyway. Welcome to Mercury. Some of you have met Mercury before. For everyone else… I’m sorry. 😀 And another apology: this ‘short story’ is actually an excerpt from the very first novel I ever wrote! (Yes, I know, that means I’m not writing new fiction,
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Limited time giveaway: If you contact me* between now and, hmm, let’s say midnight on Friday the 13th (because hi, FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH), I will provide you with one free – yes, FREE – e-copy of any of my books (any format) in exchange for a fair and honest review left somewhere like Smashwords, B&N,
Free Books, Anyone? Limited Time Giveaway. Read More »
Okay, so I am totally planning to cheat over the next couple of months and pull out some of the most popular posts from my old blog about writing to repost here. A couple of people have asked me for more writing-related stuff lately, and this is the easiest way to accommodate that when my
Applying Hot Iron: How To Deal With Recalcitrant Characters (A Repost) Read More »
So, the Brenda Novak Annual Online Auction is coming to an end (ends May 31), which means it’s a GREAT time for you to get some bids in! There are FANTASTIC prizes up for grabs – literally hundreds of them – and all the proceeds from the auction go towards research into diabetes, a condition
SFR Brigade Anthology For Diabetes Read More »
Watch The Truman Show with my year 9 class this week, and for the most part, we had a blast. There were the fairly predicable groans of ‘We don’t understand what’s going on!’ for the first half, but I just keep reminding them to wait and see, and to trust the story. When the Big
You Kids Are So 2014. Read More »
If you’ve been hanging around here or on Twitter with me for any great length of time, you’re bound to have heard me mumbling about my novel Sanctuary at least once or twice. Well, this week’s short story up on Darkness & Good is your first official introduction: Another Kind of Hunger takes place a
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Forgot to post here that there are a couple more stories up on Darkness & Good. Wreath-Bearer is set in a world that I one-day plan to write a novel in, when I’m a much, much better writer, because the idea is… complex. But this short story introduces the key idea of the world: the spirits
Blood and Wreath-Bearer Read More »
How many of you know Krista D. Ball? She’s an amazing author who writes very fun field guides for other authors (along with assorted fiction of course). These aren’t the typical How To Write A Book books, these are well researched, in-depth looks at things you never stopped to think about. Like, what did Aragorn
Hustlers, Harlots, and Heroes! Read More »
