You guys! My non-fic book, The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About Dogs, is coming to print!! YAY!!! Coming to all your favourite book-buying venues in May will be the pretty below. And my, in’t she pretty. Read more:Cover Reveal! The Reburialists by J.C. NelsonApparently I Am Mathematically ChallengedCherry Blossom Cover Reveal!
33 Dogs In Print!! Read More »
So, this week’s story isn’t really a story, but hey, I take ’em how they come. The first few verses literally plonked down in my head as I was driving home yesterday and saw a bunch of gerberas tied to a tree on the side of the road, where presumably someone beloved had died. The
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You guys! I seriously suck at this whole promotion thing, but wow. Cherry Blossom, my second anthology of short stories, is available for preorder on Smashwords! A short preorder, since it releases Monday o.O (Told you I suck at promotion!) You can download all major formats at Smashwords, or if you’d prefer, the anthology will
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I took nine years of clarinet lessons from elementary school through high school. Of course I was in the band. The band gave concerts, despite the fact that there were times when we sounded pretty awful. We didn’t get paid. If we were lucky, our parents showed up to listen to us perform. There were
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Whee! It’s been a crazy couple of weeks full of late nights and hard work, so I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting both the blog and the stories. But! I finally have another story for you 🙂 Liana posted one yesterday too, so if you’re in the mood there are TWO new stories for you! Yay!
So, long-time readers will know that I am a HUGE fan of Holly Lisle’s how-to-write materials. She is an excellent teacher, and breaks down not just the writing process, but also the brain processes behind it, allowing you to harness your creativity in a much more effective way. Writing + brain science + imagination +
Create-A-World Clinic Discount Read More »
A somewhat sappy title, but it’s the truth: there are days when the only thing keeping me going with this whole writing thing is the fact that I have people reading the blog who have, if not expectations, then at least knowledge of my expectations, which is nearly the same thing, and I hate to disappoint
Well, I missed last week but I am back again today with another flash fic on the Twins blog. Hurrah! I am trying to make this a weekly habit, but I’ve given myself permission to skip a week when I need to, as long as I don’t skip two in a row. Anyway, today’s story
You know how sometimes you read a book, especially as an author, and you close it, and you just want to applaud the author for their brilliance? Yeah. That. I finally got to read Magic Rises last night, the latest instalment in Ilona Andrews’s Kate Daniels series. Oh. My. Word. You guys! THIS is how pacing
Last week’s short fiction is up over at The Twins of Darkness & Light. I did WRITE it on time, I just couldn’t post it because I had no computer internet. I have mixed feelings about this one; I feel like the ending, although it heads in the general direction I wanted it to atmosphere-wise,
