Look what my publisher sent me for Christmas.


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For the Friday reads crowd, my magical realism/dark fantasy short story "Tell Me How All This (and Love too) Will Ruin Us" is available to read for free today at Daily Science Fiction.

You never liked me to come into the bathroom when you were there, but on that rainy Sunday I did anyway, drawn by your voice and the splash of the water. I sat on ( Read more... )

I'm never sure what to do with myself after I finish a book. There used to be this huge sense of accomplishment and GO ME I'M AWESOME and I still do get sorta cocky about it because I wrote a book and it's a thing I get to do, but mostly my internal sense is one of well thank Christ THAT'S over. This is true even if I've really been enjoying myself ( Read more... )

After a little over three weeks - by my best guess, I wasn't exactly tracking it - Labyrinthian is done at just over 85k words. I think it'll probably hit more like 90k after the first editing pass, because it feels just the tiniest bit underwritten. But I think it's good.

Now to completely rewrite the Line and Orbit sequel.

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I'm planning to actually do a Sunday linkdump later this evening - shock! - but for the moment here's a roundup of some stuff that's been going on in the writing area of my life recently:

• I'm writing yet another novel. More specifically, I'm over 45k words into another novel after less than two weeks of working on it. I have never worked this ( Read more... )

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At dawn we made our fire and they asked me for my stories. They were paying me well, so I gave them. And I was in a state of expected death, so I decided that someone at least should have a chance of carrying them back. If either of them survived as well ( Read more... )

Ravenblood, book II of Casting the Bones, is done. Just shy of 83k words. For the record, that's three books written so far in 2013, with a fourth planned before the end of the year, which honestly kind of blows my mind a little because I never saw myself being a writer who could work that fast and not produce utter crap ( Read more... )

So from right now until October 13th I'm giving away a free copy of Crowflight right the hell over here. Just give me contact info goodness via the form and I'll draw a winner at random.

Another couple of links of stuff I've written recently:

- My take on the revelations concerning @Horse_ebooks.
Look, man, I dunno. I don’t know what’s going to ( Read more... )

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