I'm so sorry it's been so long since I've been here. You knowhow it is with Facebook, and with a full time job, and, and, and.

I do want to update y'all a bit--my book, that I've been nattering about for ages, is now available for pre-order on Amazon! Do be warned--the name of the book has been changed, from The Horses of Achilles to Archangel.
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I am very pleased to announce--
No no--I am utterly geeked out--
I am ECSTATIC AS FUCK--to declare to the world that I HAVE SOLD THE HORSES OF ACHILLES TRILOGY TO RESURRECTION HOUSE.

I could not have done this at all without the Online Writer's Workshop, C.c. Finlay, Sarah Prineas, and Dan Goss (wherever he might be).

For one reason or another (and another, really), it seems I may be posting here more often ( Read more... )

Stoled from sksperry.

The rules:

1. Go to page 77 (or 7th) of your current ms
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next 7 lines - sentences or paragraphs - and post them as they’re written. No cheating.

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On the bed rested an alloy box. Sealed against moisture, dust, chemicals. Keyed to my thumbprint alone. On my way out I picked it up. For four ( Read more... )

Jesus H Christ in a jumped-up side car, how is my main character in The Horses of Achilles not a Mary Sue????

I'm feeling a bit better than I was earlier in the week as this morning I was able to cap a chapter that I'd been reworking the end of ( Read more... )

These are realizations I'd toyed with before, but it's really hitting me today as I dink around with revisions:  this whole book feels to me as if my sleeping right wing brain rose up and took over.

The Horses of Achilles deals unapologetically with:

• Gun rights
• The necessity of a standing army
• Hunting
• Anti-vegetarianism (is there a name for that?)

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I am currently bashing my brains out on the keyboard over revising a particular scene. So far I've been researching how humans manifest extreme pain (don't do a google image search for that one, let me tell ya), and fun fun fun weapons of the future that are not slug throwers. You know all those cool laser guns and plasma rifles of your beloved ( Read more... )

I wish I could write to Alexandra Knight and tell her how much I support that photograph of her and her kid. 
"Chicks With Guns"

You could damn near call this a portrait of Vashti with Bibi.


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Damn, this writing stuff is hard.

So yeah, I've written the book--and now I'm in revisions.  Sneaking in a couple of character-enhancing scenes.

My agent, who is just as nice as anything to work with, says (more or less): "This is good; and this is great!  But how about making this character more (adjective here)?"

"Yeah, terrific idea!"

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