Hey! :D My author site is up! http://aisylum.com/

There's a lot to find there-- information on books I'm working on, of course, but there's a lot more. I also have art, videos, photography (CC license so you can use them), my favorite charities/a place to recoup... Go check it out!

http://aisylum.com/ :D

The latest excerpt from Dead Rain ( Read more... )

The Julian Files is a series set in the past of In the Company of Shadows, focusing primarily on Private Investigator Julian 'JJ' Jones, but including Cedrick and his family as well. SERIES CONTAINS SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED ICOS!

For context, this scene takes place the same year that Hsin shows up at the Agency.

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Julian Files Part 1: ( Read more... )

I'm feeling annoyingly depressed again lately. It really irritates me when I start to feel down, which of course helps nothing because then I just hate on myself more.

Anyway, whatever, who cares. To the point of the entry--

This is a question to everyone:

What do you wish you saw more (or less) of in stories? What are things you can never seem ( Read more... )

I'm trying to get back into stuff but I can't seem to focus on anything long enough to do so. Today I somehow was trying to double-fist books and that clearly didn't work well since I have only one set of eyes. Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales, I'm sorry but you're in the end going to have to wait while I attempt The Ruins of Ambrai first. ( ( Read more... )

Fifty Shades of Grey author EL James is planning to publish a writing guide

A person at litreactor wrote an article lamenting this fact but also questioned whether it should be more telling that a book that's largely thought to have be poor quality nonetheless sold 70 million copies worldwide. The question was whether the world is changing and ( Read more... )

It always amuses me when I'm writing a story and mistype "gunfire" as "funfire." It makes really amusing sentences like: and then a hail of funfire rained down from above!

What would funfire look like?

I imagined something like this:


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Full notes at the end, but the important part is that there is swearing in here but that is the extent of warnings. oh, and you don't know these characters.

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Never Odd or EvenHe would never understand why he had agreed to this ( Read more... )

If this looks familiar to you it's because I'm pasting the announcement from our newsletter for this because it's already htmled:

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We're excited to announce that we've been invited to participate in an author Q&A session at The Slash Pile's livejournal communityThe Slash Pile is a community for lovers of original slash to share their findings ( Read more... )

( Ideas! And things! I'm too tired to make this sound enticing... also, is it enticing? I don't even know. This might actually be a very boring entry. YOU'LL NEVER KNOW UNLESS YOU CLICK. )