Today's piece is also part of "Disgraced," my idea for a series about an upperclass English girl in 1914 who is forced to move with relatives in Newport, Rhode Island to escape the shame of a scandal and build a new life ( Read more... )

Oh, my God, I just started playing the silliest game and I am having so much fun doing it. I was making a chart of various things I've written to examine some demographic info-- genres, lengths, genders of the protagonists, that sort of thing --when I started thinking about the various character connections between the assorted pieces. As I ( Read more... )

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All week I've felt mentally tapped out, at least as far as writing is concerned. I blame the amount of energy and focus that writing Vivat Regina so quickly demanded. But I really have to move on and get working on other things. But all I want to do is mess around with my timelines and lists, which are interesting and occasionally useful as ( Read more... )

The talented iagotolycus is playing Miss Lillian Holland in my reading of Mrs. Loring. She's very likely to be e fan favorite character, as she is the sassy Bohemian dyke who's been in the asylum entirely too long. We came up with what happens after the story, when she finally gets out of the asylum many years later-- which, we think, likely involves her ( Read more... )

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Ahhh, so behind. Last year I didn't get behind this early. But I'm going to do it one way or the other ( Read more... )

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