Today actually began with snow, freezing rain, and many subway lines being down. A lot of the participants had to walk to the workshop today, but such was our zeal that pretty much everyone made it and made it on time. We traded stories of wading through slushy morasses and generally all seemed to feel
Day three of the Sesame Street Workshop. Read More »
I am sitting on the couch with a glass of red wine and a bag of frozen peas. The frozen peas are icing my shoulder after today. It’s not so much that I’m in pain as that I would like to not be in pain tomorrow. Icing after rehearsal used to be part of my
Sesame Street Workshop, day two. Read More »
So this is the week that I’m at the Sesame Street puppetry workshop. It is fun. Oh, guys… it is so much fun. Trying to describe it for you, that’s harder. It’s such a movement based form and a lot of the moments of ah-ha! are involving subtle things like the precise angle of your
Day one of the Sesame Street workshop. Read More »
The subject line says it all. For those of you reading along, Chapter 25 is here.
New chapter! 25 is up now. Read More »
I’m having a lovely writing date with Tempest Bradford and finally got one of the difficult chapters sorted. That means that those of you reading along get to have Chapter 24. La!
This is the third year for the Month of Letters Challenge. It’s a simple thing, really, just to encourage you to slow down. The challenge goes like this: In the month of February, mail at least one item through the post every day it runs. Write a postcard, a letter, send a picture, or a
The Month of Letters begins! Would you like a letter from Jane? Read More »
Adam Christopher is joining us today with his novel Hang Wire. Here’s the publisher’s description. Ted is worried. He’s been sleepwalking, and his somnambulant travels appear to coincide with murders by the notorious Hang Wire Killer. Meanwhile, the circus has come to town, but the Celtic dancers are taking their pagan act a little too
My Favorite Bit: Adam Christopher talks about HANG WIRE Read More »
Myke Cole is joining us today with his novel Breach Zone. Here’s the publisher’s description. The Great Reawakening did not come quietly. Across the country and in every nation, people began “coming up Latent,” developing terrifying powers—summoning storms, raising the dead, and setting everything they touch ablaze. Those who Manifest must choose: become a sheepdog
My Favorite Bit: Myke Cole talks about BREACH ZONE Read More »
It is one of the great tragedies of my life that I cannot include this TOTALLY LEGIT steam-powered wheelchair from 1811 in my novels, because it will look steampunk. Even though it is a real thing — or at least was proposed as a real thing and published in Ackerman’s, it is so out of keeping
A totally legit self-propelled wheelchair from 1811, and I can’t use it in my novel. Read More »
Is there a native Italian speaker who could record this sentence for me? I took Italian in high school so can pronounce all the individual words, but my rhythmic flow is sounding very American. “Signore e signori, devo chiedervi di andare sotto coperta per la vostra sicurezza.” If you can say it slowly once and then
Are you a native Italian speaker? I need help with an audiobook pronunciation. Read More »
If you are reading along, there’s a new chapter for you. And now I need to continue with doing laundry. Ah, the glamorous life of a novelist.
You’ve heard me talk about Pat Rothfuss’s Worldbuilders charity before. The basic idea is that the money you donate goes to Heifer International which “helps people raise themselves up out of poverty and starvation. Heifer promotes education, sustainable agriculture, and local industry all over the world. ” One of the ways they do this is
If you are reading along, Chapter 22 is up. And now I have some sewing and writing to do. La!
New chapter is up! Read More »
I’m going through the page proofs of Valour and Vanity and will be reading the novel aloud in a Google+ hangout over the next several days. If you are interested in process, you’ll get to see me adjusting the text and doing a fair bit of cursing my own prose. Each session will run about two hours.
Valour and Vanity read aloud Read More »
Hey Chicago! You want to come to a reading tonight, don’t you? My friend Susanna Kearsley is on tour for her new book The Splendor Falls. Besides being smart and an excellent writer (her novel The Firebird was one of my favorite books last year) today is also her birthday. You know what would be a great present?