Happy Book Birthday!
So many book birthdays today!
Welcome to the world, Thorn Queen by blue_succubus; The Eternal Kiss, featuring a short story by kazdreamer; My Soul to Take, rkvincent's first YA novel; Destined for an Early Grave, the fourth installment of frost-light's Night Huntress series; and Demon Inside by stacia_kane, who is a guest today over at Bitten by Books. Whew!
One of the cool things about book birthdays is that you notice which authors you're following are also following authors you're following. Meaning: ilona_andrews retweeted rkvincent's post about the releases from frost_light and Jenna Black (who I'm not yet following; I've got one of her books on my desk, borrowed from a friend, but haven't had a chance to read her yet). Chandra Rooney blogged about kazdreamer. blue_succubus is showing up all over the twitterverse today, in no small part through the retweets of Team Seattle. Watching this kind of connectivity in the writing community is fascinating, and it's one of the things I love about the way the Internet is changing the way writers interact -- with each other, and with their fans.
But what's even better than online interactions among writers is, to me, the classic -- the good ol' writing group. Substrate met this past Sunday: four writers in my living room, plus one significant other/first reader, plus one writer joining us via Skype from his summer location of California. We looked over three pieces, a short story, a full novel (the first we've had submitted to Substrate), and three new chapters of a novel we've been getting in pieces. I didn't have anything this go round -- I've been having enough trouble keeping up with my deadlines -- but reading and discussing other people's work makes my writerly brain function *better.*
I'm really looking forward to the day when I can celebrate some Substrate book birthdays.
Welcome to the world, Thorn Queen by blue_succubus; The Eternal Kiss, featuring a short story by kazdreamer; My Soul to Take, rkvincent's first YA novel; Destined for an Early Grave, the fourth installment of frost-light's Night Huntress series; and Demon Inside by stacia_kane, who is a guest today over at Bitten by Books. Whew!
One of the cool things about book birthdays is that you notice which authors you're following are also following authors you're following. Meaning: ilona_andrews retweeted rkvincent's post about the releases from frost_light and Jenna Black (who I'm not yet following; I've got one of her books on my desk, borrowed from a friend, but haven't had a chance to read her yet). Chandra Rooney blogged about kazdreamer. blue_succubus is showing up all over the twitterverse today, in no small part through the retweets of Team Seattle. Watching this kind of connectivity in the writing community is fascinating, and it's one of the things I love about the way the Internet is changing the way writers interact -- with each other, and with their fans.
But what's even better than online interactions among writers is, to me, the classic -- the good ol' writing group. Substrate met this past Sunday: four writers in my living room, plus one significant other/first reader, plus one writer joining us via Skype from his summer location of California. We looked over three pieces, a short story, a full novel (the first we've had submitted to Substrate), and three new chapters of a novel we've been getting in pieces. I didn't have anything this go round -- I've been having enough trouble keeping up with my deadlines -- but reading and discussing other people's work makes my writerly brain function *better.*
I'm really looking forward to the day when I can celebrate some Substrate book birthdays.