Since I've been tweeting about the fun of researching goat sex, I thought this week's teaser for Children of Peace could be about, well, goat sex.  Here we have Greta Gustafsen Stuart, Duchess of Halifax, Crown Princess of the Pan Polar Confederacy, and blood hostage to Precepture Four, discussing the matter.   (If you want to know why the children ( Read more... )

A teeny teeny teaser for my novel in progress, Children of Peace. I just added the blurb for this book to my works-in-progress page -- about time, since the first draft is about two-thirds done. In this scene, something bad has just happened to my character, Greta, and she's recovering.

Darkness fell, and stars beyond the shattered roof. The ( Read more... )

It's now three days until the release of PLAIN KATE! An early attempt to record this video was interrupted by James, calling from the bookstore with news that KATE has been spotted in the wild. Eeek ( Read more... )

Astonishingly, it is now just four days until PLAIN KATE launches. Yesterday Vivian helped me pick balloons and streamers. And last night I used the vacuum as a tripod, and made another video of me reading a smidge. There will be five of these, for the five days leading up till launch ( Read more... )

Eeeek! The release of PLAIN KATE is in just five days, on September 1 ( Read more... )

Here's the text of the reading I gave at BookExpo today. I was thrilled to have PLAIN KATE chosen as one of the five "buzz books" from the entire huge conference. (And I mean huge conference. You could launch this think into space as a second biosphere; it's that big. (Of course, we'd have to eat Javits center sushi and each other, and not ( Read more... )

Here's something I wrote this week.  Enjoy!

Otter woke to them: a pair of dark things the size of crows, moving with stiff slowness, pushing close against the loose ward. Otter blinked twice and yawned before she realized that they were not crows, not the shadows of crows, not the shadows of anything at all - simply shadows. She rolled up with a ( Read more... )

Here's a smidge -- I hesitate to call it a cookie -- from Part Two of my work in progress, SORROW'S KNOT.   Otter, our young hero, comes from a culture where the dead are tied high in trees -- and where the return of the dead as hungry ghosts is a real danger.  Otter's mother's name is Willow.

Otter dreamt of a cord tied around a birch tree - a ( Read more... )

Here, our hero Otter completes her training as a Shadow Brave by going into the forest alone, overnight. It does not start well ( Read more... )

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