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June 29, 2009
Drops of Crimson interview!
And I'm breaking my afternoon silence to note two things: there's an interview with me over at Drops of Crimson, where I answer the Dean question and the Lipton questions, and there is a new Secret Life of Dolls. If you don't read SLOD, you are so missing out. I got to "tiny Fay Wray" and totally, completely lost my sh!t laughing.
That is all.
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Win "The Eternal Kiss"
You can win a copy of The Eternal Kiss, a YA vampire anthology, by heading on over to Suzanne McLeod's place this fine morning. The Eternal Kiss is due out July 27 and features stories by a ton of awesome authors, including Libba Bray, Holly Black, Rachel Caine…
…and, well, yours truly has a short little story in there calledAmbition, which almost didn't make it in. Because it's dark and nasty. Actually, it's one of a very few "bilateral" stories I've ever done. A bilateral story happens when I t
June 26, 2009
Priorities, Toxicity, And Putting Up With Sh!t
First off, news! My writing partner the Selkie, aka Nina Merrill, gave an interview to Grace Draven the other day. It might be interesting for readers of my Friday posts about process to see how another writer answers some of the same questions. (You can find Nina's work here and Grace's here. Yes, they both work for a small press for the moment, yes, I know about the covers. Really. I do.) I absolutely adore Nina–she's my writing partner and beta reader, after all–and I love Grace's kick-ass-an
Catch-All
Three things I just wanted to note before my Friday Writing post:
* Pharyngula, on why faith is at odds with science and why this isn't a bad thing. Why it is reasonable, and normal, and why science is better.
* Keely Kolmes, on whether therapists should Google their clients. Good stuff.
* And Cleolinda on Michael Jackson. I'll just point at that, because she says everything I want to say.
And now, Friday writing! Onward!
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June 25, 2009
Read For Free!
Good news! Night Shift, the first Jill Kismet book, is now part of Hachette Book’s Open Book program! (There are other cool books you can read for free, including Jeff Somers’s most excellent Digital Plague, here.) Go, read, enjoy!
I finished the zero draft of the third Strange Angels book last night. It’s bitty, weighing in at about 54K, mostly because there are significant chunks of it that I had to have the ending before I could go back and fill them in. So now the book can rest for a little b
June 24, 2009
Late Nights Make Me Silly
Yeah, when you stumble to the front door to let the cats out (because, of course, they will DIE IF THEY DON’T GET OUT THIS INSTANT) and see the sunshine, hear the birds singing, and even the thought of a bowl of Cheerios is too much effort…
…then, my friend, you know you stayed up too late last night getting your heroine in trouble.
I used to be able to pull all-nighters and be fresh as a daisy afterward. Then I hit a long jag of nothing but all-nighters. (It’s called early parenthood.) And when I
June 23, 2009
Three Things Make A Post
Since I finished proof pages last night and the third YA is burning a hole in my head (as in, MUST GET BOOK OUT OF BRAIN WRITE WRITE MORE WRITE NOW DAMMIT), you get three random things that make a blog post.
* Are Bookscan numbers inaccurate, or worse, just plain wrong? (Hat tip to Diana Peterfreund for the link.) On the one hand, lowball Bookscan numbers do provide a publisher with more leverage against author and agent demands for more money–natural and normal on both sides. But wrong by 100%?
June 19, 2009
Some Basic Questions
Crossposted from the Deadline Dames
Welcome to the Friday Writing Post! Today it’s a short one, because yesterday was the last day of school. So of course the Princess’s best friend stayed the night, and I have promised them cookies. They are champing at the bit to get to the cookies. There is a double batch in the works, between the toffee pieces I bought and and the propensity of Certain People in the house to snitch bits of dough.
I, of course, am innocent of such things. (Yeah, right.)
Today I’
June 18, 2009
Worldbuilding And String
Today I’m over at SF MindMeld with a bunch of other cool people talking about real-life places that inspire worldbuilding. If you want to know where Saint City came from, go take a look!
In other news, just past the halfway point with the book. Now it becomes an endurance contest. I’ve found the way into the labyrinth, now I just need to last long enough to find the way out.
Let’s hope I’ve knotted my string securely enough…
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June 17, 2009
Internet “Privacy” Doesn’t Exist
At least, not the way we assume it does.
I follow a psychologist on Twitter. Dr. Kolmes is fascinated with social media and how it impacts her clients and her profession, and her views on the professional ethics of using Twitter and social networking impressed me enough that I hit the “follow” button. And I haven’t regretted it–she posts links to papers and articles that make me think about things I haven’t before.
Like, for example, this article on how social networking sites impact the idea of p
