I don’t want to be mysterious, but there’s so much going on right now book-wise-at least three possible major developments on three different fronts-that I can’t talk about, that I’m just going to forgo the usual update.

I’m still working on Proposal No. 2, which I still like a great deal.

I need to turn out a short story this week, but I have an ( Read more... )

Actually, the entire point of July is to avoid meltdowns.  To that end, I’m making it my goal to work through minor distractions-ie, upsets of my routine.

I do have a pretty set routine each day: I get up, eat breakfast, deal with the internet and all its vast wonder and horror, write a little (or, like today, actually leave the house and go deal ( Read more... )

That looks like a draft. I have one short scene to write during the climax, and one long scene to write leading up to it. Both somehow escaped plotting, so they get to wait for the revision pass tomorrow morning. The actual climax and epilogue? Are probably the least fussy, least overwritten ending to a book I've pulled out. I'm sort of in love ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in Richelle's guest bedroom after a heady afternoon of shopping with Cherie and a not-so-heady evening of exiting the shops once we parted ways and finding the entire street closed down so that event staff dressed as toy soldiers could force unsuspecting passersby to dance with them while fake snow floated down in a grim parody of the ( Read more... )

Originally published at Caitlin Kittredge. You can comment here or there.

So, how did I do yesterday?

To-Do for Monday:

• Clean sheets
  
• Clean the bathroom (joy!) And what a joy it was.  My joy is unconfined.
• Grocery stop for essentials, like tinfoil (for my tinfoil hat) I actually went to the co-op instead, but they also had tinfoil hat making material.
• ( Read more... )

Originally published at Dark Territory. You can comment here or there.

Draft 0 is in the bag. I won’t lie and pretend this was an easy book to write , but I finished it only one day late instead of four, over word count, and completely fixable.

That’s really all that matters.

Spell Bound (Nocturne City, Book 5)

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Originally published at Dark Territory. You can comment here or there.

I believe the wordcount says it all. Over 4,000 today. That is a Good Day in my book. I use roughly the same formula my pal Cherie does for gauging productivity:

1000 words: Meh
2000 words: Merely okay
3000 words: Good
4000 words: Wowza.
5000 or more words: I’m probably on ( Read more... )

Originally published at Dark Territory. You can comment here or there.

I’m a guest blogger at the League of Reluctant Adults. There’s cake and cheap thrills to be had. And by thrills I mean liquor.

Dear Author reviews Night Life and loves Nocturne City. B- overall.

I don’t link to them, but I’ve gotten a couple of really awesome Amazon reviews, ( Read more... )

Originally published at Dark Territory. You can comment here or there.

It’s done! It’s done! ZOMG! /Runs around in circles and bangs into the wall, falls over ded.

Iron & Ice is complete at 70,000 words. It’s an upper YA historical fantasy set in Victorian London in 1881, and concerns a young exiled Fae, a missing Fae magician and a coup in the ( Read more... )

Originally published at Dark Territory. You can comment here or there.

This is cool: the local paper of the town I grew up in did a feature on me and Night Life (buy it March 4th, kids!)

http://www.ack.net/Werewolf022808.html

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I’m not done with Iron & Ice, but I have topped 60, ( Read more... )