Just a couple of links today.

First: Bitten by Books is having an awesome contest for the Linger release: a book club kit! The prize is ten copies of both Linger and Shiver, plus a $100 Visa card to host a party with. Definitely check it out!

Second: DriveThruRPG and DriveThruComics are having a huge Christmas in July sale, and the Flames Rising ( Read more... )

For all of you readers who remember watching the Star Wars trilogy before you watched the prequels… do you remember what it felt like to watch the end of Empire Strikes Back? I was too young to see it (with any recollection) in the theater, but I remember very vividly getting to the heart-dropping, cliff-hanger ending of Empire Strikes Back and ( Read more... )

I don't know what week it is. I'm beginning to think that will be a condition for the rest of my life as a mom. I do think a lot about how last year at this time, I was falling asleep for hours unintentionally and feeling sick to my stomach, and that my act of creativity was biological. Bug's "story," thus far, has been a delightful one, and I'm ( Read more... )

In one of the comments from yesterday's post, lyster (good friend of the blog and fellow Substrater Max Gladstone) noted things that have been distracting him from writing and included this sentence:

This wasn't a problem until recently, when I got a day job, because I could get all my Work done during the day and only rarely had small-w work (the ( Read more... )

It's easy to get a feel for how incredibly talented Maggie Steifvater is by watching the book trailer she made for Shiver. Step one, write an amazing book. Step two, create cut-paper pieces. Step three, create stop motion art with the cut-paper. Step four, oh, and write the musical score while you're at it.

I've asked Maggie on facebook if there's ( Read more... )

As I mentioned earlier, the lovely Maggie Stiefvater (m_steifvater) will be joining the blog on Friday as part of her tour promoting Shiver, which comes out September 1st. To prep me for her guest blog, Maggie very, very kindly had her publicist send me an advance copy of Shiver, which I devoured today. I started it this afternoon, taking a break from some ( Read more... )

It's been awhile ( Read more... )

We're a week into the New Year, and I haven't really put together a list of resolutions. I'm not sure that I will. I do have a goal of forming an actual spiritual practice (rather than a haphazard spiritual observance). The same is true of my writing. I think I lost track of my apprenticeship somewhere along the way and need to get back on the ( Read more... )