Hot damn! On Spec wants to profile me in their next issue! (I'm assuming this is the same issue that they'll be printing Hexenhaus in, as that would make the most logic ( Read more... )

Since my work resume is currently in fighting form from the recent job-hunt, I figured I might as well update my writing portfolio as well today. And you know something? Despite all my woe and angst and painfully cliched self-flagellation, I've had at least one thing that I've written in print every single year since 2006 ( Read more... )

Awwww, that was dumb. I randomly became concerned that I didn't even have the shadow of an idea for NaNoWriMo this year, so sat down and plotted the thing and came up with a title (Messengers Shot On Sight) and jotted down notes about the main characters and got all excited about writing it right this minute, omg, omg ( Read more... )

Oh, the Internet. How are you made of such undiluted insanity?

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(It makes me laugh so hard, you guys. *snickers forever ( Read more... )

Seriously, talk to me in the comments, folks. I'm looking for your observations of gaps, dearths, and saturations in the soft sci-fi and urban or modern fantasy genres. FOR SCIENCE. Or something. What would you like to read more of? Less of? Is there a type of plot, character or other story element that you can't get enough of? How important is the ( Read more... )

Check it ooooout, networking sites aren't blocked at the office over the lunch hour! *capers* HI, GUYS, HI! :D ( Read more... )

(The On Spec contract arrived and it is real and wonderful and six pages long. I... was actually quite convinced that I'd jinxed myself by letting the universe know how much I wanted this (fear my nonsensical superstitions!) and thus am currently de-fuckin'-lighted! *wriggle of glee* Merry Christmas to meeee ( Read more... )

... but am having an awful lot of fun doing just the same!

(BUT FIRST: Twelve Tales, my chickadees. Has you obtained it yet? :D ( Read more... )

Holy crap, you guys! The Twelve Tales project has culminated in one gorgeous, tangible paperback right here!


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So we did a prompt at writers' group last night... You could write about going to a ten-year reunion and either running into the person who had bullied you, the person you had bullied, or the date you ditched at prom. Just a little twenty-minute free write. I figured I might as well throw it on here, since this one's seriously unattached to ( Read more... )