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February 3, 2020
Work in Progress: Bones of Earth
Bones of Earth
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 3
Things are starting to move again. The words are flowing. I’m gaining momentum. And the RWA is spiraling. So we’ll see what finishes first — my book, or my professional (ha!) organization.
If it does die a horrific death, it won’t be because a group of us didn’t fight like hell to save it. I’ve made some friends over the past month — fantastic people who I might not have known otherwise. So there’s my silver lining from...
January 28, 2020
Romance Writer’s Weekly: Genre Musings
Hi, all! If you’re just here from A.S Fenichel’s blog, nice to see you. Or if you popped in from the wilds of the internet, welcome in.
This week, we’re talking about genre. What genre do you love to write and why?
Well, I’m a weird duck (stop laughing). I tend to write what I want to read, so if what I’m in the mood to read is a BDSM Steampunk Erotic Romance? Well, then I’m going to write that, and you get House of Sable Locks. If I want to read something new adult fantasy that riffs on the...
January 27, 2020
Work in Progress: Bones of Earth
I still have no idea what week it is for this manuscript. It’s coming along again, a little faster than it had been. I’m still behind, though.
Bones of Earth
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 3
I’m just past a big moment, and things are starting to move again. Now, I might be skirting into some darker places soon. There will be moments that are going to hurt to write. Necessary moments that have been in the plans from the beginning.
There are also a couple of scenes that...
January 12, 2020
Work in Progress: Bones of Earth. aka Why the Writing is So Slow.
Bones of Earth
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 3
January 7, 2020
Dinosaurs
Let’s talk about dinosaurs.
(Liz, why are we talking about dinosaurs? There are more important things to talk about!)
Bear with me. And besides, I’m writing this, and we’re talking about dinosaurs. So deal with it.
(eyeroll All right. Dinosaurs. Rawr.)
Right. Dinosaurs. Once upon a fucklong ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Biggest things ever. Apex predators, giant herbivores, they were everywhere. With me so far?
(Rawr.)
Fine. Where are they now?
(Wait… oh)
Right. We don’t have dinosaurs any...
Romance Writer’s Weekly: New Year, Who Dis?
Welcome in! Welcome to 2020! And welcome over from Caro’s blog. What did you think of that gorgeous cover on her new book?
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The cover on my next book is pretty, too. But it’s also nowhere near done yet. It’s about halfway there — I’m hoping for a May release.
That, I suppose, is a good way to start talking about my 2020 plans. I know I have two books coming out this year because I’m publishing them. Bones of Earth (the one that’s half finished) and Wings of Air will finish out my Heir to the...
January 5, 2020
Back to work!
Welcome to the New Year. I think.
We’re five days into 2020, and it’s already been a long year. On the first of January, I stepped up into the position of President-Elect of the Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal chapter of the Romance Writers of America. The entire RWA Shitshow had been doing on for about nine days at that point. I’ve been a little preoccupied with that. If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve seen my Tweets about it.
Part of the fallout of this mess is that I’ve withdrawn ...
January 1, 2020
Rabbit, Rabbit!
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2020!
It’s been an interesting end of the year in Romancelandia. If you’re following me on Twitter, you know what I mean — you’ve possibly heard or seen something about the current disaster in the RWA.
However, I’m not going to discuss that here. For one thing, it’s changing by the minute, and anything I write now will be out of date tomorrow. For another… not what I want to talk about right now!
Last night, I sat down to do something I’d seen a lot of other writers...
December 22, 2019
Work in Progress, Week Nineteen: Bones of Earth
Bones of Earth
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 3
Coming up on the end of the year, and just over halfway done with Bones of Earth. I don’t expect to get a whole heck of a lot done between now and January 6th, when school starts back up. But once school starts, this will be my primary focus — I need to finish Bones of Earth and get started on Wings of Air, so I can get them both finished and released in 2020.
I have other 2020 plans — writing John Zebedee and the...
December 16, 2019
Work in Progress, week Eighteen. Bones of Earth
Blood Bound
Flesh and Blood, Book 1
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Bones of Earth
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 3
I realized sometime around Thursday that I never did go back and post the weekly roundup after announcing that Blood Bound was DONE. Umm… oops.
I also didn’t have a heck of a lot to round up other than that — I hadn’t been working on Bones of Earth really at all, so that I could finish Blood Bound before school let out for the holidays (which will be...
