For those reading along with Ghost Talkers, Chapter 20 is up. For everyone else, here is a random photo of the last day of our Christmas decorations. We keep our Christmas cards in the typewriters. Thrilling. I know.
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Everyone has a story they want to tell, whether that’s from fiction or from part of your life. As I’ve been watching the news roll out from Ferguson and then in waves across the nation, I’ve been struck by how much grass-roots reporting has differed from the mainstream media narrative. While facts and data are important,
I’m teaching a free writing workshop in Ferguson, MO on Jan 24. Read More »
Kristi Charish is joining us today with her novel Owl and the Japanese Circus. Here’s the publisher’s description. Fans of Kim Harrison, Jim Butcher, and Linda Hamilton will flock to the kick-ass world of Owl, a modern-day “Indiana Jane” who reluctantly navigates the hidden supernatural world. Ex-archaeology grad student turned international antiquities thief, Alix—better known now
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If you are reading this post, right now, it is because I promoted it. There is another copy of this post on my site, nearly identical, except that I didn’t promote it other than just posting it. It doesn’t take looking at the traffic numbers to figure out which one more people will read. [Edited
This post! I’m promoting it, even though I’ve been told it’s tacky to self-promote. Read More »
The latest chapter is up, and I was right about splitting the one I was working on in two. Which means I’m still two chapters from the end. Y’all are four chapters from the end, because of how far ahead of you I write. Meanwhile, for everyone else, here’s Sadie and Marlowe. I know you’re
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David B. Coe is joining us today with his novel Spell Blind. Here’s the publisher’s description. Book #1 in The Case Files of Justis Fearsson, a new contemporary fantasy series from fantasy all-star David B. Coe. A hardboiled, magic-using private detective hunts a serial killer in Phoenix, Arizona. Justis Fearsson is a private investigator on the trail
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For those of you reading along, I’ve posted the next chapter in Ghost Talkers. I just finished chapter 20 and am two or three chapters from the end. The reason I’m not quite sure is that the next chapter might split into two. We’ll see as I write it. If it gets unwieldy, I’ll find a
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Jim C. Hines is joining us today with his novel Unbound. Here’s the publisher’s description. For five hundred years, the Porters have concealed the existence of magic from the world. Now, old enemies have revealed the Porters’ secrets, and an even greater threat lurks in the shadows. The would-be queen Meridiana, banished for a thousand years,
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This week on Writing Excuses, we’re kicking off a new structure, a masterclass in fiction. Here, I’ll let you read the description. Season 10 begins! We wanted to do something different this year. Something special. As we brainstormed we kept returning to something a listener said years ago: “Writing Excuses is like a master class in writing
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For those of you reading along, Chapter 17 is up. For everyone else, here is an entirely unrelated photo of Sadie’s pawprint in the snow. She headed for the front porch, put one foot down, and then thought better of it.
Happy New Year! Nothing like starting the year by realizing that you haven’t sent an email, is there? So, I totally goofed. When I run a workshop, I normally open it to the waiting list from previous workshops and alumni of other events before I open it to the general public. But I saved the invitation
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SL Huang is joining us today with her novel Half Life. Here’s the publisher’s description. Cas Russell is back — and so is her deadly supermath. Cas may be an antisocial mercenary who uses her instant calculating skills to mow down enemies, but she’s trying hard to build up a handful of morals. So when
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This is the first part of a short story with Jane and Vincent. It takes place between Valour and Vanity and Of Noble Family. New Year’s Eve, 1817 Vienna Despite the snow outside on the streets of Vienna, a bead of sweat tickled Jane’s nose. Hot and fatigued, she let her vision return from the ether.
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I had to stop writing for a bit because I had to go through the copyedits for Of Noble Family, and then the holidays and now here we are. Chapter 16 is up, for those of you reading along. I also stalled out, which is a thing that happens sometimes, because I felt like I needed
Ghost Talkers chapter 16 is up + thoughts on stalling while writing. Read More »
I’ll mention that at about the one minute mark, my laughter is a little maniacal. I think my mask slipped. Early in November, at the World Fantasy Convention, I interviewed a few authors. Below is my interview with Mary Robinette Kowal, my final one from that weekend. Mary spoke of everything from modeling naked, to
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