One week tomorrow and I’ll be back at work. Normally I’d be flailing about complaining I didn’t do anything, but this summer–at last!–that’s not true. I may not have done everything I’d hoped, but (as usual) my hopes were unrealistic. I still did pretty damn well. Fifty thousand words written in two months. Two hundred […]
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When people compliment my stories, one thing often mentioned is the realism. I have a main character with a life-threatening allergy. It’s consistent, not just a plot-point. Falling in love doesn’t mean everything will be perfect forever. Minor characters have lives and goals; they don’t just exist to help or thwart the main characters. Realism,
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Today it’s hard to get moving. That’s not helped by the fact that I slept till nearly noon, but I think the real problem is the heat. It’s 2200, and 91 degrees. Bleh. I’m trying to do the final final edit on His Faithful Squire. It should be easy–I’ve been through it so many times
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The other day when I had no brain at all (no jokes about how often that happens, please!) but I didn’t want to waste any more of my summer in unproductivity, I addressed all those broken posts from *cough* years ago when I moved my blog onto wordpress. I’ve been blogging for eight years, since
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His Faithful Squire is out in two weeks, but I’ve teased a lot from that book, so I thought I’d offer someone else. This is from a just-for-fun story I wrote, Fanged Bunny Slippers, that I may or may not share elsewhere sometime soon. Joss Ravid has a book of his own, but it doesn’t have
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Sequel to Knight Errant Former joy-boy Rafe Ballard will miss living on the freighter Pendragon’s Dream. Under the watchful eye of Captain Eve Marcori, Marine veteran, no one beat him. He ate well, his life was rarely in danger, and—most important by far—he spent much of his days and all the glorious nights with his
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