Yesterday I made an important writing-related decision, somewhat sad, somewhat relieving ( Read more... )

I find myself at an interesting crossroads in the 2013 writing journey.

First off, the good news. I am almost finished with The Superhero Thing. It's that magical stretch of every novel when you've worked through all of the plot difficulties and all that remains is to tie up the loose ends and cruise on through to the end. Lately, melyanna has taken to ( Read more... )

Since my last post about worldbuilding and invisible worlds I haven't done very much, but what little I have done has been gratifying:

• Made a "grab bag" list of minor characters (and their superpowers, if any) for the Superhero Thing
• Did some Restoration planning with laura_josephsen. (In person! Over lunch! It felt just like old times!) :-)
• Wrote 122 words for ( Read more... )

Regarding the publication of The Guardian Race and the rest of the Restoration series:

Laura and I have respectfully withdrawn our agreement with OakTara fiction for publication of this series. Neither The Guardian Race nor any of the other sequels will be published with OakTara, and Awakenings will be out of print at the end of the year. Both of ( Read more... )

A long, long time ago when laura_josephsen and I were a million discussions deep into "Restoration" and the mythology of the world was finally starting to congeal, I made the following lofty, sweeping suggestion ( Read more... )