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Best Book Tour Ever, Part 2

Yesterday, I took you on a journey through the first leg of the itinerary for my super-awesomeimaginary book tour. We hit bookstores and longships and covered a whole bunch of ground across Europe. Today? Today we go to the New World. But first, we have to make a special stop in a different kind of […]

Best Book Tour Ever, Part 1

Let me be clear: Having a book tour anywhere would be mind-blowingly spectacular. Really, anywhere. An elementary school cafeteria (tater tots will be served). Your basement (right between your dusty lego collection and that yoga mat you promise you’re going to start using). Oh, yeah, and a bookstore! But what if it could be an […]

The Second Edda

I learned it from men, | the men so old, Who dwell in the hills of home. Harbarthsljoth, Poetic Edda For some writers, book ideas come with a title tagging along, a happy puppy, if you will, inseparable from the story itself, accompanying it every step of the way. The story is a tennis ball […]

Some Thoughts on Books that Matter

*brushes off dust* Oh, right, I have a blog. In the wake of the holidays, my attention was hogged by these pesky things called assessments. You know, the academic sort with deadlines that really matter. The stuff that will determine whether I receive a piece of paper that says MA on it. Yeah, those things. […]

Top Five Books of 2015

A few weeks back, I talked about the books I read in 2015, mainly the unconscious variety I found on my list, both in terms of authors (new and familiar) and genre (ALL the genres). But I didn’t mention anywhere among all those musings (ramblings, if you like, I won’t be offended) which books were […]

On Xs and Ys (Chromosomes, That Is)

I’ve been reading a lot lately about writing and gender, specificallydiscussions aboutwomen writing genre fiction. These discussions usually center around questions like: Do readers gravitate toward male writers of fantasy/sci-fi? Why are women continually left off Best Of lists despite often winning an equal share of annual fantasy/sci-fi awards? Are female authors taken less seriously? […]

A Year in Books

In January, in the aftermath of the holidays and in the middle of another Minnesota winter, I set a reading challenge for myself for 2015 on Goodreads. At 25 books in 12 months, it was a modest challenge. For a while, I was way ahead of schedule, but I’m glad now that I gave myself […]

My Characters Don’t Talk to Me–And I’m Okay With That

“My character told me hecertainly did not want to go on a date with hisintended love interest.”** “My protagonist decided she had a fear of space-walking zombierabbits, despite the fact that she single-handedly eradicated the emperor’s face-eating hellhounds.”** “My supposedly loyal warrior waltzed into the scene and said, in no uncertain terms, that hewould, in […]

On Writer’s Block

I’vebeen asked a few times about writer’s block and recently expounded on my take on the subject on a Goodreads Ask the Author question. I thought I’d pop over here to share those thoughts. How do you deal with writer’s block? Over the course of writing the first drafts for all three books in The […]

Why I Love a Little Hand-drawn Tree

Now thatThe Blood-Tainted Winter is out there (I mean, really, people arereading it. Maybe at this very moment.) I wanted to share the map created by Swedish illustrator/cartographer Gillis Björk. I’ve mentioned Gillis beforeand I still feel verylucky to have found him and to have his artwork gracing the pages of my book. It’s an […]