Hey! I'm working on the second draft of a freelance project at the same time as preparing for my big Low Road rewrite (to be finished by late December, I hope!), so my brain is doing that constantly-spinning-wires thing as I mentally shift pieces of plot and character arcs back and forth, back and forth, trying lots of different combinations... ( Read more... )

Everything is a bit mad here at the moment. MrD may be starting his lovely new school next week...or the week after...or possibly the week after that? We're still waiting to find out (and be able to arrange childcare accordingly ( Read more... )

OK, I am still totallytotallytotally on blog hiatus (don't laugh!), especially since I have a freelance deadline next Thursday and only two childcare sessions between then and now...

...but I just had to share: as part of Amazon.co.uk's big Kindle Marathon Sale, A Most Improper Magick (Kat Book 1) is on sale for just 99p! I have no idea how long ( Read more... )

Thank you guys so much for all the reassuring, supportive comments on my last entry! Patrick and I felt very wobbly as the first day of preschool approached, but everything went really well. WHEW. I expect there will be ups and downs as we all settle into the new routine, but I'm feeling hugely relieved right now ( Read more... )

This week I had two pieces of writing news that made me very happy:

1. My short story "Locked Doors" is going to be reprinted in the upcoming anthology Running With the Pack, edited by Ekaterina Sedia.

( Read more... )

Okay, the last few days have actually been pretty bleagh, because I've been so knocked out by crazy baby sleep patterns that I could barely do anything productive. (My head's even been hurting too much to read manuscripts on-screen, so I am falling way behind on my critiquing duties to good friends and great novels - sorry guys!!!! I will get back ( Read more... )

This morning, not only did Mr Darcy let me stay in bed until 7:30 (comparatively speaking, bliss!), but I woke up to the best kind of news: my short story "The Andrassii Agreement" has sold to Lone Star Stories! It'll be published in the December issue. "The Andrassii Agreement" will be only my second published science fiction story, which makes ( Read more... )