“No Dominion” is now 30,005 words long, making it officially the longest novella I’ve ever written. It is possible I have reached the halfway point and don’t yet know it, but I have definitely *not* reached the halfway point of the second section, which is currently 10,000 words long. I am hoping that tomorrow will edge me over a precipice I can ( Read more... )

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2011 has been the weirdest writing year ever for me. I only wrote about--*pauses to count*--well, in the region of 300K, it looks like, which is actually pretty much my usual wordcount. Huh. But in years past I've gotten that wordcount primarily from books, and this year while I *have* written two books, I've also written...*pauses to count again* ( Read more... )

Most of a year ago Faith Hunter and I decided to write a crossover novella with our two main characters, Joanne Walker and Jane Yellowrock. We thought we'd have it done this past summer, but, um, we didn't ( Read more... )

Ah. My Wordpress is no longer propagating to LJ. That explains why no one admitted to sitting there a moment trying to remember, as I did, if they got that email, when they read Friday's Questionable ContentIt also explains the far more astonishing lack of volunteers to eat the totally inadequate fudge I made yesterday, which is in fact absolutely ( Read more... )

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It’s Labor Day, I’m sure nobody’s going to be around, I should hold off on posting this, I know I should, but I JUST CAN’T STOP MYSELF.

Recently widowed after nearly fifty years of marriage, Gary Muldoon had given up on adventure. Then shaman Joanne Walker climbed into the back seat of his cab, and since then, Gary has trifled with gods, met ( Read more... )

AAAAAAAAAH and now Kyle’s cover art has triggered the title and storyline and it is going to BREAK. YOUR. HEART.

I am so excited about this project. *laughs out loud* Holy carp, it’s gonna be cool. And I suppose I’m going to have to start a Tumblr blog or something for it, so all the updates like this one (full of teasing and no content, I mean) ( Read more... )

ZOMG.

On the “you can’t get what you don’t ask for” rule, I emailed kylecassidy/Kyle Cassidy to ask about possibly doing a photo shoot for cover art for the upcoming Kickstarter Walker Papers/Gary novella (which I have now begun referring to as Book 7.5 of the Walker Papers). I said I thought he’d probably have access to a model and a sword, described what I ( Read more... )

I have just finished the sixth and final story for the Old Races Short Story Project, FOUR MONTHS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.

Excuse me while I do a dance of *glee*.

*dancie dancie dance*!

I am *really* pleased with myself. The project’s purpose was to get me to write half a dozen new Old Races stories for a possible collection, with an anticipated ( Read more... )