“Gosh,” I thought to myself, “when I go back to work, will I write the scene where Gary gets his throat cut, or the story where Margrit’s mother embarks on a passionate affair with Eliseo Daisani*?”

Then I thought GOD I LOVE MY JOB!

*One of these things does not actually happen.
(x-posted from the essential kit)

I’ve been getting happy comments from people who’ve received and read WALKING DEAD and are ready for the next one.

*laughs* No fair. I can’t keep up. :) Actually, of course, I’m way ahead of them, starting the 6th book right now, but it takes *so little* time to read a book and so long to write one, even if you write fast! Mind you, vis-a-vis ( Read more... )

For some ungodly reason* I woke up at 6:19 this morning, and after a desultory lying-about for half an hour or so, got up and went for a 4.5 mile walk around swimming.

I came home to an email full of character sketches for a graphic novel idea I’m developing with artist Lanny Liu, some of which were so perfect they made me laugh. There’s nothing ( Read more... )

So I got revision notes on THE PRETENDER’S CROWN from my agent, the estimable arcaedia/Jennifer Jackson a couple of days ago. The first screen (which was all I read at the time) wasn’t too terrible (I have gotten *really* gun-shy about revision letters since the one that obliged me to *completely* rewrite HOUSE OF CARDS), so today I held my breath and ( Read more... )

There are 141,098 words in the QUEEN'S BASTARD manuscript ( Read more... )

I work with some of the coolest people in the world ( Read more... )

This is not the stage of the manuscript when you want to be working through it and finding whole pages you've marked up with red ink. In theory you've moved well beyond that by the time you get to the galleys. Ahahahah. >.Usually I don't have quite this many markups. OTOH, usually I haven't rewritten a book four or five times. There's stuff ( Read more... )

esmerel eyes kit!

Kit uht oh

esmerel says, "I think I am with your editor on that ending."
esmerel says, "Just saying :)"

Kit says, "Oh, honey, that's not the ending that made her scream."

esmerel laughs

Kit says, "I sent her the end of the *sixth* book."

marith says, "So this was the relatively *good* ending? :)"

esmerel odear

Wow. I just got the most incredible fan mail from a woman who read COYOTE last night. The idea of everyone having an inner garden really resonated with her, and she sat down and had a think about what her own might be like, and wrote this beautiful, evocative description and sent it to me, and I'm just ... *wow*. *Wow ( Read more... )

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