Every once in a while I get asked for writing advice, either in RL or in Second Life where I run around as a tiny clockwork dragon and hang out in steampunk sims. And I have the same answer for both lives - don’t ask me for writing advice!

Why?

Because I’m not one to ask. I’m a tough old broad who lucked out after a decade of writing fanfiction into ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a pretty good two weeks of promotion since the book came out. I've had a few SL chats with people and some I know have gone on to buy the book itself. And there's more to come in Second Life, which suits me just fine.

The oddity I'm finding in SL is that there are a *lot* of self-pubbed authors who really are slamming the promotion ( Read more... )

'Cause, you know, I'm insane ( Read more... )

It's been one heck of a busy week, as you can guess ( Read more... )

I've been reading quite a bit lately while finishing up "Blaze of Glory" and starting to send it out. Received a nice rejection from the agent who requested a partial, but that's fine - I don't expect that in this economy with publishers pulling back from taking too many risks that a superhero novel is going to be a hot commodity... yet. I'm sure ( Read more... )

Been recovering from both the Pennwriters Conference and the request for a partial from an agent, which meant that last week was mostly recovering from putting together the package and getting things back to normal. Well, sort of. For this household, that is.

Realised that I'd love to do a seminar for the next Conference on Second Life and what it ( Read more... )

Well, still hammering on "Blaze of Glory" to make sure it's all polished up and special to go out in the mail this weekend... of course, I keep getting distracted by buying pretty baubles in Second Life for me avatar!

*chuckles*

I attended the Walt Whitman discussion last night again, although lag problems had us relocate to Winterfell, a beautiful ( Read more... )

Had a great time at the Pennwriters conference up here in Pittsburgh; did my moderator co-ordinator thang and ran around like a fool getting things done, but it was Good ( Read more... )

OMG... I can buy a Stargate SG-1 outfit for my wee clockwork dragon! In BOTH camo colors!

:D

and toys... lots of... toys...

I swear, I never liked playing with dolls or dollhouses in me misspent youth.

really.

:D

well, we were *supposed* to get through the first 100 lines of "Song of Myself" at the Whitman gathering in SL last night ( Read more... )