Years ago, I was in Lyme Regis and bought my favorite hat. I was just looking through my journal and found the name of the shop and thought, “I’ll bet they have a website now.” Behold! Pop Goes the Weasel is a bespoke milliner and does beautiful, beautiful work. Now you don’t have to visit […]
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Or at least, a draft of Without a Summer is finished. It is 84,000 words, which makes it 10k longer than the other two books. I am a little baffled because I wrote it in 39 days. Granted, this is only a first draft and it needs revisions, but it is still a lot of words.
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For those of you reading along on Without a Summer, the draft of Chapter 23 is up. I will now commence refreshing my mailbox obsessively while I wait for comments.
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What? You wouldn’t do this? From Christmas 2011 It did take some structural engineering to get it to stay put because it is a wee bit heavier than your standard tree topper.
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For those of you reading along, Chapter 22 of the Without a Summer draft is posted. I am now writing the chapter that I wanted to avoid writing so the next chapter might be a bit. Mental note: writing historicals is hard.
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One of the hardest things for a new author, either with short stories or novels, is to learn how to gracefully self-promote their work during the various award seasons. Here are a few tricks for handling that task.
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It’s the Writing Excuses Fantasy Setting Yard Sale! In this experimental (at least for us) ‘cast, Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard build a couple of fantasy settings for you, and they’re free. Seriously. TAKE THEM. We start our world-building with an unusual way for someone to obtain magical powers. We ended up with space-dust. We then
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