I had this odd experience last night while we were watching Doctor Who. In the episode “The Hungry Earth” there’s a sticky wooden door. Rory asked the Doctor why he didn’t sonic it and he replied “It doesn’t do wood.” This created a moment of author horror for me. I have one (1) story in […]
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My inbox is overflowing with good news today. Shades of Milk and Honey is on the Kirkus Reviews list of Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2010! This is just staggering. Really, I got the email and threw my arms up in the air with a hurrah. (Also, no lie, the sun just came out.
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One of the things that’s tricky about writing historical fiction like Shades of Milk and Honey is getting the vocabulary right. There are a lot of words which are obviously anachronisms but there others which aren’t. Short of looking up every word in a novel, there’s no way to really know if a seemingly innocuous
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A notice for SFWA members and others interested: SFWA has taken action regarding recent events involving Dorchester Publishing, and the announcement of that is at the SFWA Blog.
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I’m over the moon about this sale and it also marks a couple of interesting firsts for me that I thought were worth sharing “Kiss Me Twice” is my first novella sale It began life as my first NaNoWriMo effort It’s my first story with a recurring character Way back in 2004, I was living
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Nifty! My publisher is reportedly out of stock of Shades of Milk and Honey which means that the only copies are the ones in the stores. If you want a first edition, get it soon. And look! Powell’s has signed first editions just in time for the holidays. Not that I’m hinting or anything.
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Aidan Moher at Dribble of Ink has a very nice review of Shades of Milk and Honey. One thing that pleases me is that he points out that this is not a typical fantasy novel. I think some people have been surprised by the structure of it, since it does hew more closely to Jane
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The video was created by David Kazzie. (Hat tip to Michael Chan for pointing it out)
So You Want to Write a Novel, an amusing and frightening video Read More »
I’ll be in Seattle tonight to read from Shades of Milk and Honey at UW bookstore (4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA, 98105) at 7pm. As a bonus, I’ll also perform The Broken Bridge, which is the shadow puppet play from Chapter 10 of the novel. It’s a shadow play from 1874. And I’ll be
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WOOT! Today is release day for the audio anthology METAtropolis: Cascadia. I love audio fiction and have been waiting to get my hands– er… ears on this for months now. I’m happy on every release day, but there are some anthologies that I would anticipate and want copies of even if I didn’t have a
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Let me talk about amateur writers and why I think that’s a fine thing. I’ve seen the idea tossed around that people who only write once a year aren’t writers. While I do agree that it is easier to have a long-term and sustainable professional career if one writes every day, that’s not an actual
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I recently overheard some professional writers talking about NaNoWriMo and a number of them thought it was a waste of time and that the folks who did it were wannabes. Bullshit. When you are getting your legs, writing long form is really intimidating. The internal editor kicks in and will eat your brain alive. My
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Orycon 32 is this weekend and I’m looking forward to it. Here is my schedule for the con. I hope to see you there. Friday 4:00:pm — The physics of magic Ross/Morr Writers often talk about magic systems and magic having a cost. It’s fantasy–can’t you do anything you want? Should magic hold to a law
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On Sunday, November 21st, I’m teaching a workshop called “Writing on the Fast Track” at the Hugo House in Seattle. I just heard that there are only five slots left in the workshop, so if you’ve been thinking about signing up, don’t wait too long. Here’s what the course catalog has to say about the
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I know you like shiny things. And you do, right? Shiny, shiny, shiny things. One thinks of shiny as being a visual thing but lo! it can refer to audio as well. For instance: I have the first five minutes of Kate Mulgrew reading my my audio novelette, “Water to Wine.” “Water To Wine” by
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