Allow me to evangelize about the Surrey International Writers Conference just a little. I’m having a great time, because the people are nice, but what I’ve been impressed by is how open people are to trying new things and to learning. It is a professional development conference for writers and it is clear, from the […]
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I’m sitting on the train on my way up to the Surrey International Writers’ Conference in Canada. Why the train? I’ve finished a short story, had breakfast, strolled, and am enjoying a beautiful view out my window. I love the train SO much. Of course, in Seattle, I’ll have to switch to a bus for
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As we know, writers often have trouble with medical bills later in life. There’s an auction to help Ed Bryant, Jr. that I want to draw your attention to. Many people have contributed to help him out. The auction includes things like lunch with Neil Gaiman; a pencil/graphite drawing of the chapter head and tail
Friends of Ed auction is a good cause with amazing items Read More »
I misread a post recently and saw the words “prose assassins” instead of “poetry assignment.” In that moment, I realized that the Prose Assassins were real and that they had slipped up. You’ve had them strike before, but they are so stealthy, so insidious, that you blamed yourself. You know the moment of which I speak.
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In case the title of this post isn’t clear, my fabulous agent, Jennifer Jackson, has sold two novels to my wonderful editor Liz Gorinsky at Tor Books to follow Shades of Milk and Honey and Glamour in Glass. I got the news while I was at my parents’ house on a writers retreat, which I highly
SALE! Two new novels in the Shades of Milk and Honey universe! Read More »
Edited to Add: I’ve got enough readers for this round. Thank you all! I have a 3700 word science-fiction story that I’d love to have some readers for. This story might seem familiar to some of you. Back in 2008, I experimented with writing a story on my cellphone and texting it to readers. I
Readers Wanted: The White Phoenix Feather: A Tale of Cuisine and Ninjas Read More »
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Pitching your work… authors often have difficulty with it. Even authors who have no trouble spinning a fantastic story may find themselves at a loss telling people ABOUT that story in a way that makes it compelling. We cover three kinds of pitches — the one-liner or “elevator pitch,” the three- or four-paragraph explanation, and
Writing Excuses 6.19: Pitching » Writing Excuses Read More »
Nancy Kress just did a blog post talking about the different places that writers write and ended it by asking, “Where do you write?” Here’s where I write. Mostly. It converts from a standing desk to a seated desk, when I can get Harriet out of my chair, that is. I also write at Case
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From April 20-22, 2012, I’ll be attending JordanCon IV: “Car’a’con” in Roswell, Georgia as the author Guest of Honor. Also there will be Artist Guest of Honor, Sam Weber, and Toastmaster, Melissa S. Graib Dombrowski. JordanCon is a fantasy literature convention founded in honor of the late author, Robert Jordan. Jordan was the author of
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My friend and Medieval scholar, Michael Livingston — for whom I named Captain Livingston — has written a post about the language in Shades of Milk and Honey. In it, he translates a few lines of the novel into Old English and Middle English Anyway, at one point Mary and I were talking about voicing and language
Captain Livingston has Beowulf’d and Chaucer’d “Shades of Milk and Honey” Read More »
I have an Asus EEE PC which I modded to be steampunk. I wrote swathes of Glamour in Glass on it while riding the subway in NYC and a bunch of other shorts. These days, I don’t need the little thing and it is sadly neglected. It wants to be with a new writer who
My steampunk netbook is for sale! Read More »
Writing Excuses this week covers a topic that I find very, very interesting. I had this conversation informally with Lou in a bar and it blew my mind. This week, on writing excuses, we get him to sit down and talk in depth about the Hollywood Formula. Lou Anders, Hugo-winning editorial director from Pyr books, joins
Writing Excuses 6.18: Hollywood Formula » Writing Excuses Read More »
I turned in the line-edits for Glamour in Glass and thought I would share the crazy, crazy thing I did as part of this editing pass. Glamour in Glass is set in 1815 and I wanted to have the language fairly clean of anachronisms. The challenge came in trying to figure out what words didn’t exist
Words I couldn’t use in Glamour in Glass Read More »
I– that’s a… I have a– Last night, my short story— Rocket!!! It is really hard to wrap my head around having a Hugo. I mean… It’s a HUGO! !!!!!