Renee Patrick is joining us today with their novel Design for Dying. Here’s the publisher’s description: Los Angeles, 1937. Lillian Frost has traded dreams of stardom for security as a department store salesgirl . . . until she discovers she’s a suspect in the murder of her former roommate, Ruby Carroll. Party girl Ruby died wearing […]
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So, last year, the Writing Excuses gang put together this writing workshop and we held it on a cruise ship. Why? Because it turns out that when we were pricing venues this was the best deal. No, seriously. We’d been doing them at my parents’ house and people were staying at a Best Western a
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Deborah Biancotti is joining us today to talk about her novella Waking in Winter. Here’s the publisher’s description: On a far, frozen desert world, Muir the pilot discovers an ancient artefact in the ice. She sees a mermaid at first, but later comes to wonder if it is Ningyo, a fish god from her homeland in
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I’m judging the FutureScapes Writing contest, which has a goal that I’m really excited about. It’s the idea that art can change the world, and so it invites submissions for stories with the goal of changing the future. “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” -Oscar Wilde Looking at
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William C. Tracy is joining us today with his novella Tuning the Symphony. Here’s the publisher’s description: Change one note and the universe changes with the Symphony. One apprentice will become a full majus today. The other will wait months for another suitable challenger. Rilan Ayama is skilled in using her song to change the Grand
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Josh Vogt is joining us today with his novel The Maids of Wrath. Here’s the publisher’s description: After surviving employee orientation without destroying the city with her new powers, Dani is finally a bonafide Cleaner. Raring to get to work and save the world from Corruption, she’s given the critical assignment of…full-time tools training. After all,
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I’d like your opinion. I do this thing, sometimes, where I take a typewriter and write one page flash fiction on demand. At the opening of Volumes BookCafe, I wrote five during the course of the evening. They’re fun, light, and take me about fifteen minutes. That’s a photo of one of them. (I’ll post
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Stephanie Buris is joining us today to talk about her novel Masks and Shadows. Here’s the publisher’s description: The year is 1779, and Carlo Morelli, the most renowned castrato singer in Europe, has been invited as an honored guest to Eszterháza Palace. With Carlo in Prince Nikolaus Esterházy’s carriage, ride a Prussian spy and one of
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So, I know the answer to this, but my husband, who is doing our taxes*, would like a second opinion. As a writer, the books that I buy are a business expense because they are necessary for staying current with my field. As an audiobook narrator, the audiobooks I listen to are a business expense
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Patrick S. Tomlinson is joining us today to talk about his novel Trident’s Forge. Here’s the publisher’s description: They’ve made it this far. If only that increased humanity’s chances on this new planet… Against all odds, the Ark and her thirty-thousand survivors have reached Tau Ceti G to begin the long, arduous task of rebuilding human
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Martha Wells is joining us today with her novel The Edge of Worlds. Here’s the publisher’s description: An expedition of groundlings from the Empire of Kish have traveled through the Three Worlds to the Indigo Cloud court of the Raksura, shape-shifting creatures of flight that live in large family groups. The groundlings have found a sealed
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I tend to think of April Fool’s Day as Alternate Reality Day. A well-constructed April Fool’s joke is one, which creates, for a moment, a really cool world to live in. But, there are rules. So, I thought I would post my rules for what makes a good prank and then walk you through my most recent
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So if it were April 1 and a friend “noticed” that there was erotic Glamourist Histories fanfic on Amazon. And said friend had a history of writing fast and writing fan-fic, would you give them the side eye? Yes. Or if another friend has apparently been working on a secret project. So tell me the
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Some of you noticed that I was doing some Kermit flailing on Twitter a while back. That’s usually a good sign of secret good news. And while I did get an invitation to audition for a speaking role on Sesame Street. I didn’t get the part, so that’s not what the flailing was about. The flailing
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One of the ways that my privilege shows is that my parents paid for my college education. They also were able to fill in the financial gaps when I started working as a puppeteer so that I didn’t have to get a day job. While I tried not to lean on them, there were months
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