I've come to the end of "Time of Daughters" book two. Emotionally and physically exhausted--and I can't even contemplate all the stuff I shoved aside to get this done ( Read more... )

There has been much eldercare stress of late, and though it's never going to be a win/win, at least we're in a holding pattern on both fronts now ( Read more... )

A couple weeks back, I had a post about space opera, which has been on my mind not only while I finished reading Judith Tarr's Forgotten Suns, but also because Dave Trowbridge and I are back on track with rewriting Exordium for ebook. (Book View Cafe |KindleThe rewrite has been interesting. Of course I wanted to clean up the prose (I have learned a ( Read more... )

I interview author Judith Tarr on this and on female and male narration, crossing genre boundaries, and writing process and the evolution of long arc stories, starting point Arrows of the Sun(Though we don't get too much into my favorite particular bit of writerly weirdness, lifetime long arc stories. Maybe just as well, heh? I suspect I've been ( Read more... )

asakiyume did an interview with me.

Catherine Lundoff invited rachelmanija and me to talk about how Stranger originated.After writing this, I began to think about how many ideas spark just to smolder out, and which ones take fire. Some of them smolder for years. One, for three decades (but that one I didn't know how to write until the nineties, and I do a draft every few years.) It's fun when ( Read more... )

What is it about 'shattered'--is it in the Zeitgeist? Here is yet another title with 'shattered' in it. There have been a lot of them lately, and all things that don't actually shatter. A couple years ago it seemed to be shadows. And also bone. Or maybe that's me, being visually oriented so my perception of patterns might skew.

Got tapped by Jacey Bedford, who is soon to hit the stands as a fellow DAW author.

1. What am I working on? I suspect eyes merely glaze when I reel off a list of titles*, and one-line descriptions are the next most boring thing, as no one but me has the context, therefore, any investment ( Read more... )

Cultural appropriation and liminality, volcanoes and houseboats, why sometimes a writer has to go indie, discussed in this interview with Francesca Forrest.

I hope these questions and answers will engender some discussion--I really had fun doing it.