When I first started out as a writer, I wanted to use everything I was told in a critique. The other writer obviously had a better perspective than me. They could see things I didn't ( Read more... )

I present to you the coolest magazine cover ever! (Well, my rejection-scarred ego thinks so, anyway.)


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Breath of Earth is DONE. Well, the rough draft, anyway. The full version could be another six months yet. Final word tally: 86,729The goal was 90k, so my estimate was pretty darn close. I figure the count will climb a good bit in the first rounds of revisions, and then reduce as I snip stuff. That tends to be the usual way of things ( Read more... )

I have a guest post over at the WOW! Muffin right now on defying stereotypes. It's about how some people assume that because I'm a mother, I must write for kids, and that I get some confused reactions when I say I write fantasy and science fiction.

What assumptions do people make about your writing?

Throughout December and January, I did a lot of reading for the coming awards season, and barely delved into the wealth of quality works published last year. I now present to you my list of favorites. I provide links to the work online, if available; whether you can vote in the awards or not, I highly recommend you give these a read ( Read more... )

While at Cascade Writers last summer, I was in a fantastic critique group. No holds barred-style critiques! One of my peers is a very nice lady with a thing for zombies. Katie Cord has now started her own publishing company, Evil Girlfriend Media. They are accepting submissions for three anthologies with deadlines on the first of April, May, and ( Read more... )

Researching the Middle AgesIf there is one period of time most associated with fantasy fiction, it's the Medieval-from about 1100-castles, crusades, and courtly love-to the middle 1500's, at the cusp of the European transformation through its interactions with the plants, peoples and products of the New World. But many authors rely upon vague ( Read more... )

I'm taking part in the Niteblade Magazine Blog Train. You can read the previous entry, and tomorrow the blog train will roll onward. Check it out ( Read more... )

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." ~ Mark Twain

If you give away books on a blog or have received books through blogs or promotions, check out this link and the links from there. It brings up interesting questions on legal wording and tax issues within the United States. I'm curious about how it would apply to ( Read more... )

I was going to post on other subjects today, and then I saw stacia_kane posted about a recent incident online where some jerk emailed self-published authors under the guise that they were Jodi Reamer at Writers House, and offered them representation. There is also a small blurb about it on Publishers Lunch.This was the first I had heard of this. It hit me ( Read more... )