It's been several months since the last time I did a thumbnail list of current projects, and things have changed substantially since then, so it seemed like it was about time I did it again. Largely because if helps me keep track of things, and I'm happiest when I know where I left my stuff. Please note that this is only the projects currently ( Read more... )

Since I'm actually writing again, and talking about writing, and generally obsessing about writing, I thought it might be a good idea to put an end to all those '...which book are you talking about?' questions by giving a thumbnail list of my current projects. Please note that this is only the projects currently being either worked or researched: ( Read more... )

So I write. I write a lot. I write, in fact, pretty much compulsively, and I start going rapidly crazy when something prevents me from doing it. I block dialogue while I'm walking. I outline plots on the backs of menus. If there were a Writer's Anonymous, I'd probably have to be a member, because it's just that compulsive, and just that ( Read more... )

...I sat down and wrote the first four pages of chapter one of Shining Star (which may wind up getting renamed Star Light, Star Bright, depending on how things shape up), the second book in the ongoing adventures of Corey Markham, teen star, accidental amnesiac, and victim of her own ambition. I love Corey. I love her crazed simplicity, her raw ( Read more... )

* I have some of the best proofreaders in the world. In. The. World. So good! Less than twenty-four hours after handing off the first draft of Upon a Star, I had corrections ranging from the grammatical to the identification of large pacing problems, and am now prepared to whack the book with large sticks in order to get it into condition to ( Read more... )

Today, I have ( Read more... )

The weekend installments of Upon a Star were called on account of physicist (Thursday), New Yorkers and EFO concert (Friday), and Memorial Day weekend (Saturday through Monday). Yes, I am a very bad blonde and should be beaten, preferrably with silly string ( Read more... )

My normal genre -- and by 'normal' I mean 'the one I write in the most frequently' -- is urban fantasy, edging into light horror. After that comes romcom and chick lit, and then a slowly declining list, all the way down to 'scholarly non-fiction' for my poetry tutorials. 'Young adult lit' isn't a place that I visit all that often, unless I have a ( Read more... )

It is a Tuesday morning, bright and shiny and sunny and crisp and cool -- the sort of day that San Francisco was invented to provide. I'm wearing a tank top guaranteed to cause vertigo in anyone who chances to look at it directly while I'm in motion, my hair is fluffy and clean, and life is good. (The part where I finished reading Robin McKinley' ( Read more... )

So we have the current leaders in our 'rename Clady' scramble, and the poll to go with them. Here go:

Poll The naming of cats...

If you feel strongly about another name, please explain why in the comments.