This is a very shiny thing. Kirkus put out their best of the year list, and Valour and Vanity is on it. Squee! “Combining history, magic and adventure, the book balances emotional depth with buoyant storytelling.” Renowned glamourists Lord and Lady Vincent become the victims of an elaborate scam that leaves them in dire straits until […]
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If you are reading along, Chapter 9 is up. I stalled for a day because I realized that Chapter 11 had no visible conflict in it. There were plot things that needed to happen, but the outline just had them happening and it was… dull. So, I had a day of replotting that scene, which
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Jessica Leake is joining us today with her novel Arcana. Here’s the publisher’s description. A romantic, suspenseful, genre-bending debut set in Edwardian London. Amid the sumptuous backdrop of the London season in 1905, headstrong Katherine Sinclair must join the ranks of debutantes vying for suitors. Unfortunately for Katherine, she cannot imagine anything more loathsome—or dangerous. To help
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Today while working on Chapter 10, I committed the typo, “The bulldong looked over his shoulder.” It was tempting to leave it as a present for my copy-editor. Meanwhile, for those of you reading along, here is Chapter 8.
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During NaNoWriMo, it’s pretty common to see people who doubt that they can write, because they are struggling with NaNo. I love the event and it works well for the way my brain is wired. It’s not for everybody. Just because I work better with a deadline doesn’t mean you will. I’ve also seen people
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Last night I crossed the 25k mark in the race to NaNoWriMo winner status and am at 26,734 today. Technically, the novel is actually at 31,496 words but some of those were written before NaNo started. Meanwhile, for those of you reading along, here is Chapter 7.
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For those of you reading along with Ghost Talkers, I just posted Chapter 6. If you are curious, I finished the poem that is masking the book cipher and inserted it and the decoding into Chapter 5. For those not reading along, this might be amusing and doesn’t involve spoilers. When I was writing the chapter, I
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For those of you reading along, Chapter 5 is posted. I am not finished with Chapter 7, because World Fantasy. However, since I’ll be on a train when I finish it, I figure I’ll go ahead and indulge by posting 5 now. I did fairly well at continuing to write during the convention, but obviously
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You know…After a trip to Australia, staying asleep when you wake up at random times gets a lot easier with the help of a cat.
Sadie attempts to help me recover from jetlag Read More »
I’m at World Fantasy, so production is slowing down a little. Still! I managed to finish another chapter, and have just posted Chapter 4 for those reading along.
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…because they don’t read romances. Yes. This is a kissing book. In a proud, long line of kissing books. It will not give you cooties.
To the men who ask if my book is a romance… Read More »
M. Todd Gallowglas is a writer and a storyteller who has spent years doing traditional oral storytelling at renaissance fairs. He joined us at FantasyCon/Westercon 67 before a live audience and talked to us about how this tradition has informed his writing, and how these principles can inform our writing as well. He also schools us (okay,
Writing Excuses 9.45: Tools for Writing from Oral Storytelling Read More »
If you are curious about statistics, I’m 18,667 words into the novel although only 12,580 count toward NaNoWriMo. I’d written the first chapter before NaNo started in order to sell the book. I just finished writing Chapter 5. And if you’re reading along… Here’s Chapter 3.
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