The Secret Keeper by Kate Coombs

Good lord! Guess my Liath story isn't really very unique any more.

I think I've determined that the part of writing I suck most at is character development. The problem is that the characters mostly show up in my head as fully fleshed out people. I forget, sometimes, that they're not in the *reader's* head.

I was writing a scene yesterday for Keeper of Secrets (yes, I *am* still working on that) and it ( Read more... )

s00j concert last night was wonderful! It was a small venue, with only a handful of people there, and while I could have wished s00j a bigger audience, I actually really liked the intimacy of it. I got to meet some great people, and the other two members of the Traveling Fates were wonderful. I shall be buying CDs from them as soon as I can afford ( Read more... )

Here is the Contents Page for Keeper of Secrets, aka the Liath story.

So the building in Pirate's Alley I was thinking of using for Liath's bar? It's the Faulkner House, where William Faulkner lived when he wrote his first novel. Which is really cool, except that I would feel weird about co-opting such a historic site for my own uses, if that's even legal -- do you need a building owner's permission to use it in ( Read more... )

Well, apparently I have pretty decent intuition. When I first started writing the Liath story, I hadn't moved to Louisiana yet, and so the Black Rose was located pretty much in an as-yet-unnamed random city. Once I'd moved here and been to New Orleans a few times, I realised it was the perfect setting, and I could tie in all kinds of Post-Katrina ( Read more... )

So, this is a story I've been working on for a long time, and for the past year or so, I've finally been able to get some actual scenes written. Some of you have been following my I'm sure frustratingly sporadic posting of this story for some time. Others may not have read any of it at all. I decided that since I've been skipping around so much ( Read more... )

Ok, this is less a holiday update and more of a stuff-you-may-have-missed post ( Read more... )