If fictional characters wrote FML entries.

I'm completely incapable of being as funny as Kate Hart, so instead of writing FML entries for already-published fictional characters - I'm writing them for my own. :D

Nika (from STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL):

"Today I had another vision. My head pretty much split open, I saw lots of blood, I drooled all over myself ( Read more... )

...well, actually there are a lot of reasons why today is made of awesome. For one, I am alive and breathing, which is pretty awesome in and of itself.

But today is EXTRA awesome because the fantastic Sumayyah made me a book cover for CITY OF SHADOWS. I won a contest on her blog, and the prize was THIS piece of gloriousness:


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So a scant twenty minutes after I posted my last blog, Emilia emailed me to say that she had a surprise. A few hours later I received this surprise in the form of a MADE-OF-AWESOME drawing.


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Today is an unofficial holiday for the writing blogosphere - Agent Day. It is one epic blog-party, during which we writers give our agents the appreciation they totally deserve and probably don't get enough of. Check out other Agent Day posts at Lisa and Laura Write.

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I have an embarrassing confession to make: I am a horribly judgmental person ( Read more... )

I'm actually posting a teaser from CoS today. (*gulp*) Although there's a chance I might delete it after a day or so.

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See? I told you so. :P

Just so you know, whenever I make plans, something is bound to come along and wreck them. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, since my plans are often insane and haphazard and ridiculous ( Read more... )

It stands for National Novel Writing Month. It is 30 days of pure, unadulterated writing madness. Thirty days of trying to pound out 50,000 words and some form of plot. In case you had forgotten, I tried to engage in this madness last year, with a first draft of CITY OF SHADOWS.

I failed.

Because the truth is, I kind of suck at this whole speed- ( Read more... )

Today as a (very belated) teaser, I'm going to post a snippet from the very first draft of City of Shadows - back when it was in first person and the world building was a lot crappier and there was almost no plot. I figure I haven't publicly humiliated myself in a while, so I'm due for a moment of embarrassment.

This scene is one of the few that ( Read more... )

A short snippet from City of Shadows. Nothing with dialogue, because the majority of my dialogue-heavy scenes are very spoilery. Enjoy!

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Serenity is dreaming about Lizbeth - her mouth stretched in a wide grin, her red curls spilling down her back. The girl is radiant in a pale dress that shimmers with soft rainbows under the gentle golden lights. ( Read more... )

Today is officially made of awesome. First, I finally finished revising City of Shadows for my agent. WOOHOO!!! Assuming she approves the edits, I think we'll be submitting to publishers in...*ventures a guess*...a week or two? EEP!

Second item of awesome for your viewing pleasure - the epic fan trailer my sister made for City of Shadows. EEP again ( Read more... )