My day often goes like this ( Read more... )

Guess who has two thumbs and wrote a short story over the weekend ( Read more... )

So, though I was trying the write a sentence a day technique, what I ended up writing didn't feel right to me. The character didn't have the voice I remembered her having when I first "met" her, and so I scratched that beginning and decided to start over. After talking about a number of writing exercises (which helped me get some perspective), I ( Read more... )

I wrote this yesterday on fantastic_realm, but since it has to do with what I'm realizing about the new YA novel (which I'm going to start tagging under Blackstone), I thought I'd x-post here ( Read more... )

Tight schedule this week due to deadlines, so I won't be writing much. Quick notes:

* Cowboys and Aliens, volume 1 (the first team) went up to number 1 on the DrunkDuck.com comics site after it was announced that there's a movie deal in the makings. I don't know much more about it than that, but it bodes well for our sequel when we start posting ( Read more... )

I just watched Stranger than Fiction, which was excellent. I think it was probably a really challening role for Will Farrell, because he's not just a doof--he actually has a full range of emotions and comes off as a really amazing guy. It's also a great look at what story means, and what choices writers make, and why they decide to make them. I don ( Read more... )

I missed noticing a new review of Into the Reach posted on Amazon in mid-March, but there it is! Departure is, as yet, unreviewed (anywhere). If you're a reviewer or blogger and would like to review Departure, and are willing to post a short review on amazon as well, I do have some (limited) press copies available. Let me know if you're interested ( Read more... )

mentioned in her blog not too long ago that she's not a huge stickler for "correct" mythology in her books. "Correct" mythology isn't something I require of the fantasy I read, but I'm always thrilled when real-world myths are put to good use.

I just finished New Moon last night (see? addictive) and, while I enjoyed her combining traditional ( Read more... )