Life continues to be exhausting and fraught, but there are lovely moments. Like my tiny patio garden. For the first time in the twenty-five years I've had this pine tree (many years in a pot) it is making pine cones! I think this is due to the true winter we had, complete with rain.


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writers vs. critics then--and now. Writers are encouraged (expected! in some cases) to be personalities online. So . . . does that mean responding to reviews, or not?

A post on beginning to self editRight before the holidays, I visited a classroom of writers who'd done the NaNoWriMo challenge for their semester project, but much of the discussion might be useful for those who've got that first project done, and are wondering what next? How do I approach whipping this into shape ( Read more... )

A couple days ago, a reader posted a playlist for a series of my books, called "Glory/Damnation. The images are large, so I did the link instead of bringing it over ( Read more... )

It surprises me that anyone would ask me how to market when you have no money, since I'm crap at it (but I try different things--will be trying one in a couple weeks again) but I've had two people ask me about this in the last week, and one in person, part of a cooperative of older women who have all written books and are putting together their own ( Read more... )

. . . I do an interview The usual questions, also what superpower I'd like to have, and what three people I'd invite to dinner . . .

Six writers offered their top three mistakes at a Loscon in Los Angeles a few years back.

I took these notes, and thought that posting their lists might kick off some discussion.

Using Diana Pavlac Glyer's new book on how the Inklings worked as a group, I wanted to talk about writers' groups and process and maybe get some discussion going.

Emerging from the hideousness of having to disassemble ten thousand books, the closets, the kitchen, because a week ago a black widow crawled across my pillow just before I was going to turn out the light and go to bed. Result, inspection, surprise, termites eating the walls, black widows everywhere. Expensive treatment, massive work, my hands hurt ( Read more... )

I'm currently sitting in a very fine hotel in mid-Dallas, waiting impatiently for the sun to come up in case I might get to see some rain ( Read more... )