First, I have a little guest post up at the Paranormal Haven blog. They asked me a while ago, and of course I wrote it in my calendar and promptly forgot all about it, so I had to write it on the fly last night. Which means I’m not thrilled with how it ends, because a much better idea for the ending occurred to me this morning, but oh well. Later ( Read more... )

Apparently we're supposed to post the first line of all of our current WIPs ( Read more... )

(Yes, some of this is copied from my post at the League today; sorry to those for whom it's a repeat.)

First, a bit of shameless drive-by promo: I'm doing an interview and chat-type-thing today at Bitten by Books, so come on by and say hi, ask me inappropriate questions, call me names, whatever you'd like to do! The interview will go up at 8 am ( Read more... )

In a funny coincidence, on Monday or Tuesday evening I received an Author Questionnaire in my email, from the wonderful folks at Del Rey. And, well, wow ( Read more... )

In a funny coincidence, on Monday or Tuesday evening I received an Author Questionnaire in my email, from the wonderful folks at Del Rey. And, well, wow.

They are THOROUGH. There’s a lot of stuff on there. While I don’t actually have answers for some of it-since nobody wants to give me awards and I never went to college, and am a big old loser who ( Read more... )

Is up at Five Scribes, and this one is an absolute hoot. Some really amusing questions in there (the interviewer, KL, is highly disturbed in a good way), so go check it out. :-)

The hubs is away for the weekend--my MIL had minor surgery this morning (she's fine) so he's off to spend a few days with her, helping her out. And I assume he will help, although the temptation to whine about being bored and try to force her to get up and take him shopping--as she did to me, two days after my doctor cut me open and pulled a live ( Read more... )

And you can read it here.

I'll probably put this in my regular post tomorrow, so be prepared to see it again.

Writing is so weird. I'm sitting here thinking about the WIP, and thinking, "Man, I'm 16k into it and nothing has happened." And then I realize so far Chess has been poisoned, shot up freezing antidote, examined a dead body, been trapped ( Read more... )

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(Note: I originally had a different excerpt planned for today, but since the last one inspired so much discussion I decided to put up the very next scene instead.)

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