Not as big as the last one of mine, but whatever. A snippet from Blood Bound, chapter six. I don't know why, but I love this exchange between Delia and Daniel.

Context: Dawn is coming, and Daniel is a vampire out on the open road. Delia has a solution.

“Get in the trunk,” I ordered, holding it open ( Read more... )

My current read for the moment is Dreamhunter by local author Elizabeth Knox. She is best known for her book The Vintner's Luck, which is being made into a movie by Niki Caro (Whale Rider) and stars Gaspard Ulliel and Keisha Castle-Hughes. But as I am only 11 pages in (having finished Graceling this afternoon) I don't really have much to share from ( Read more... )

My friend Seanne (morgulq), who I met at uni last year in classics classes, came on MSN a little while ago and had a sheepish confession to make.

Apparently, when Seanne's friend Kate (who I don't know at all) was off raiding Seanne's computer for files, the partially-completed, first draft of Blood Bound got copied over as well. It had been edited to ( Read more... )

Writing is one of those things that you have good days and bad days, and you can sort of describe it in terms of walking/running. Some days you can go dashing across the playing field with no problems, and the next it is difficult to put one foot in front of the other. But just because the creative juices aren’t flowing and making it easier for you ( Read more... )

This entry was originally posted at Working Title on February 26, 2009.

I started writing my first novel back in the middle of 2000. It was called Never Trust A Hybrid and it was a girl who discovered that her father wasn’t dead… he was undead. What was planned was a journey of self-discovery, acceptance of one’s self and role in life, and internal ( Read more... )

One of the things I love most about writing - apart from creating the characters I am writing about - is creating the world that the story takes place in. While it may be the case that the story is set in the “real” world, a world that is set and has its own rules, I still have know the rules for the “unreal” creature I write about dwelling in it.

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As the title says, this is a short story set in the Blood Bound universe. It takes place a few months after the events of chapter one (Charlie’s turning), but it is still early on in the whole “vampire hotel” thing the Richards family have got going on.

Warning for language and sexual references. Also for work posted without a beta (but with ( Read more... )

Originally published at Working Title. Please leave any comments there.

As the title says, this is a short story set in the Blood Bound universe. It takes place a few months after the events of chapter one (Charlie’s turning), but it is still early on in the whole “vampire hotel” thing the Richards family have got going on.

Warning for language and ( Read more... )

We're about a third of the way through the second round of beta-ing for Blood Bound, so while JK is doing her thing, I am doing mine. And right now that means (besides working on The Superhero Diaries) I am trying to write a query letter.
A query letter sells your article, novel, short story, or other work to an agent or editor. You send a query ( Read more... )

I was recounting a small tale from the Blood Bound universe to JK, my friend and beta, and well... she whipped up this little drawing.


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