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LJ Chat, Day four, post three

Originally posted 11/20/2011 at the Circlet Press Livejournal. Due to the graphic nature of this post, please follow the link!

LJ Chat. Day four, post two

Originally posted 11/20/2011 at the Circlet Press livejournal

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Not quite sure what's happening, or why Princes isn't up for sale yet. Once it goes up, I'm sure you all will hear me squeeing.

Now, everyone remember Turlach from yesterday's excerpt? He was not originally going to show up in the third part. He was supposed to die, and there was supposed to be another love interest for Petran, another male character in the second section… who ended up dying. Turlach, wily little fox that he...

LJ Chat, Day Four, post one

Originally posted 11/20/2011 at the Circlet Press Livejournal

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 refresh….

Is there anything more sad than a writer sitting there, continually hitting F5, waiting for the book to go live?

Yeah, didn't think so.

So, while we wait, let's talk about sex. I know you've all be waiting for the sex. After all, this is Circlet. Why the heck have I kept you waiting?

For actual written sex, you'll have to wait a little longer, until I put up the next part of The Ice Raven. Right now, we're going to talk...

So….

Anybody wanna buy a book?

LJ Chat, Day three, post three

Originally posted 11/19/2011 at the Circlet Press Livejournal

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And here we have the next section of The Ice Raven. Yes, there are spoilers here. But no sex yet. For those of you impatient for the smut, it starts tomorrow.  Also tomorrow come the real big spoilers, so it's a good thing that Princes of Air rolls out tomorrow, too.

On with Oscar and Muirenn.

It being the middle of the night, I had to wait until morning to follow my first instructions. Oscar had pointed to one of the two beds...

LJ Chat, Day Three, post two

Originally posted 11/19/2011 at the Circlet Press Livejournal

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I've pulled today's excerpt from part two of Princes of Air is titled The Courtship of the  Raven King. When I started expanding Princes, I decided to look at Diarmuid first. He's the oldest of the brothers, and I suppose it's fitting that we should do the bookends — follow the youngest up with the oldest.

Diarmuid, in my head, reads a little like Liam Neeson. And if you read the review yesterday, you already know a little about ...

LJ Chat, Day Three, post one

Originally posted 11/19/2011 at the Circlet Press Livejournal

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The other day when I was working at Starbucks, I referred to myself as "that kind of writer." When I say that,  I'm goofing a little on John Scalzi, because in 2007, he put a book on writing out entitled You're Not Fooling Anyone When you Take your Laptop to a Coffeeshop: Scalzi on Writing.  I freely admit that I haven't read the book yet. My stack of writing books that everyone says I simply MUST read is about as tall as my...

LJ Chat, Day Two, Post Five

Originally posted 11/18/2011 at the Circlet Press Livejournal

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Sigh. This is nice. The boy is in bed. I'm working on my next project (Heart's Master, the long-awaited Nick and Steven novel. Nick and Steven being the characters from The Hand You're Dealt and Snowbound, both of which were published by Circlet. Hand appeared in Like a Sacred Desire, and Snowbound was part of the Advent Calendar last year.)

So, as my last post of the night, I'm going to share the first review for Princes of...

LJ Chat, Day Two, Post Four

Originally posted 11/18/2011 at the Circlet Press Livejournal

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Since the rest of my day is about to get crazy (the bus will be here in half an hour), I'm going to get this up here now. And talk about Oscar.

Oscar was, originally, a spear-carrier. He was there to be a foil to Arlaith, and nothing else. At least, that's what it says here. He had other ideas. He turned into a smart-ass, a pivotal character in the whole thing, and one of the most tragic characters I think I've written to date.

I ...

LJ Chat, Day Two, Post Three

Originally posted 11/18/2011 at the Circlet Press Livejournal.

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Way back when, the title of what became Princes of Air was PRINCE of Air. Niall was it. I mentioned his brothers, but the story (it was a novelette, then), was all about Niall.

Wait, who is Niall?

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My name is Niall. I am called Niall Gobha, Niall the smith, and I am the youngest of the Raven Boys, having seen only nineteen summers come and go. Youngest and most foolish, I admit that now. I'm told that there are others like my ...