Just a quick hit today, as I’m running out the door to hit up a curtain sale with my mom.  Why did I buy a house with so many freakin’ windows?

If you were curious about the glamorous working week in the life of a writer, take a gander at my expanded, weekly to-do list:

• Keep up wordcounts on Iron Codex II.
• Edit The Curse of Four and send back to ( Read more... )

Brace yourselves. I'm gonna say something about vampires.

I have no vampires in any of my books. The closest thing is a kind of vamp-zombie hybrid (zompire?) in The Witch's Alphabet.I've been critical of vampire fiction in the past--I find a lot of the modern stuff formulaic and, for lack of a better term, de-fanged. I can't remember the last time ( Read more... )

This post, I fear, has been a long time coming. Me, I tend to lurk quietly on the "professional" side of blogging, unless I'm talking about myself (my Virgo Type A personality's most favoritest thing evar!) or someone specifically asks for advice. I read industry blogs widely, though, and sometimes things I see that are erroneous or harmful or just ( Read more... )

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When one is attempting to attain sleep at a decent hour, one should not consume an entire litre of diet Coke just before.

Or have one’s phone-that-also-surfs-the-net within arm’s reach on the bedside table.

That is all.

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I got up at 10:11 a.m. today, which is approximately two ( Read more... )

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In all of my years watching Batman: the Animated Series, how come I never noticed that Nightwing is sporting a Batmullet?

Because he totally is. Ah, 1993. What a fashionably-challenged year you were.

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Make sure you know what sounds new appliances make.

I’m watching Disturbia.  Mildly creepy.  I’m toasting a bagel in my new toaster oven.

I hear: creeeeaaaaak.

Bolt about ten feet off the sofa.

Shia LeBouef is chased by a serial killer.

Creeeeeeeaaaaaak.

“Hmm,” think I.  “It’s ( Read more... )

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When one has a reading/signing the next day, it is not advisable that one stay awake until 1:30 a.m. playing Rock Band.  Furthermore, it is not advisable that one lose one’s voice soloing the Blue Oyster Cult classic ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’.

That is all.