*looks under couch cushion* *stares* Holy cow, I have a blog.

John Boden tagged me for this A MILLION YEARS AGO and now, at last, I actually have something to talk about.

1. What is the working title of your next book?

Wolves and Witches

2. Where did the idea come from for the book?

megengelhardt and I looked at each other and said, "Geez, we've sold a lot ( Read more... )

Shock Totem #3 is free in Kindle format for today only; if you like short horror you'll want to pick this up, and the rest of the issues, too. But this is the one with "Drift" in it.

(Cross-posted from WordPress)

One of my writers' group people recently mentioned she had no idea where to start to find people to publish her stories; I've been on Duotrope (and surrounded by working writers on Twitter) for so long that I'd forgotten what a hurdle it was figuring out how to go about it. For me, it felt like trying to buy things on ( Read more... )

The end of NaNoWriMo 2011 is upon us, and I'm especially sad because this has been my favorite year for several reasons, including local meetups and the fact that I was redrafting, not first-drafting, so my word count was cheatishly easy to get. No shame, no regrets. It looks like we'll be keeping up regular write-ins (or more properly, "talk-ins ( Read more... )

It's getting wintery, so that means it's plant migration time. I brought the eggplant, herbs, and both jalapeno pots inside, but left outside the tomatoes, sweet potatoes, strawberry, and tiny nubs of benighted kale (which grew back, then got eaten down by caterpillars AGAIN, and are once more growing back). My living rooms is currently a jungle. I ( Read more... )

I've been away for a week, so the state of my garden yesterday was a much-anticipated surprise ( Read more... )

I spent Easter weekend visiting my old stomping ground in Pittsburgh; we ate sandwiches and did lawn work and went to Ikea, and oh I do miss living in an area with a ready supply of my particular type of yuppie. Also one of them is eight months pregnant. Endlessly entertaining! I haven't been back since the move. I went in feeling as if I'd been ( Read more... )

I love numbers. I love the way they crunch. So I love the end of the year, when I get to analyze my writing stats ( Read more... )

NaNoWriMo is over! I won over lunch on the last possible day, played the "rocks fall, everyone dies" card, and, true to form, I started a new short story on the evening of November 30 ( Read more... )

Hey, remember NaNoWriMo? Where I was writing short stories for some reason rather than a proper novel? Last night I finally made a finished draft of the fourth one. So here are the stats ( Read more... )