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October 29, 2011
Counting Down . . .
days to go!November 1st and the release of DEATH MAGIC (and the short tory in TIED WITH A BOW) are almost here. To get you warmed up and ready, I wrote a very short story for Darkfaerietales.com. [image error]
It's written in T.J.'s point of view--remember him?--and shows Lily Yu as a very new homicide cop. The site asked that participants use an urban legend. The one I picked is called Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn On th Light? I kept that title and wrote my own version. Find it here.
July 8, 2011
Urban Fantasy Workshop . . .
. . . apples optional. I'm teaching an online workshop on writing urban fantasy workshop at WriterU, starting July 11th. (That's Monday, so there's still time to sign up.) The price is reasonable--$55 for two weeks--and it's interactive, not just me yakking away. Which would bore me as much as it would everyone else.
Here's the description of the course:
What is urban fantasy? Why has it stayed hot? Eileen Wilks, NY Times bestselling author of three dozen novels and short stories -- including the twelve which comprise her World of the Lupi series -- addresses the 21st-century genre that's attracted millions of new readers and continues drawing more every month. Focused solely on writers with an interest in urban fantasy, this hands-on workshop looks at the craft of blending fantasy and reality...with in-depth information on topics like building a world and creating plausible characters ("Mary Sue need not apply"). During this two-week session, you'll also learn about:
* What urban fantasy readers look for
* Genre-busting books that work
* Placing limits on characters, supernatural and otherwise
* Creating a setting and magic that works
* Urban fantasy publishers to watch for
* Writing a series: how much planning does it take?
If you're interested, the last I heard (on Wednesday) there were still five openings. Check it out here.
June 27, 2011
Cullen Blogs
Bad idea. He was supposed to blog about something to do with summer. Instead he decided to deliver a lecture on magical theory. Oh, well. You might want to check it out anyway here.
May 5, 2011
DEATH MAGIC - out Nov. 1
DEATH MAGIC opens with Special Agent Lily Yu in Washington, D.C. with her fiancé--lupi prince Rule Turner—to testify before a Senate subcommittee about her role in the magical collapse of a mountain last month. She is not there to tell them about the strange legacy she carries from that event—or about the arcane bond between her and Rule--or what her boss in Unit Twleve of the FBI's Magical Crimes Division is really up to. She sure won't tell them that the lupi are at war with an Old One who wants to remake humanity in her own image.
Lily is managing the conflict between her duty as an officer of the law and the need for secrecy pretty well . . . until the rabidly anti-magic senator who chairs that committee is murdered. The line between right and wrong, always so clear to her, becomes hopelessly blurred as events catapult them all towards disaster, and prophecies of a cataclysmic end to the country she loves and serves--and to the entire race of lupi--seem well on their way to being fulfilled.
DEATH MAGIC cover!
The cover art for DEATH MAGIC just arrived in my email inbox, and isn't it striking?
DEATH MAGIC opens with Special Agent Lily Yu in Washington, D.C. with her fiancé--lupi prince Rule Turner—to testify before a Senate subcommittee about her role in the magical collapse of a mountain last month. She is not there to tell them about the strange legacy she carries from that event—or about the arcane bond between her and Rule--or what her boss in Unit Twleve of the FBI's Magical Crimes Division is really up to. She sure won't tell them that the lupi are at war with an Old One who wants to remake humanity in her own image.
Lily is managing the conflict between her duty as an officer of the law and the need for secrecy pretty well . . . until the rabidly anti-magic senator who chairs that committee is murdered. The line between right and wrong, always so clear to her, becomes hopelessly blurred as events catapult them all towards disaster, and prophecies of a cataclysmic end to the country she loves and serves--and to the entire race of lupi--seem well on their way to being fulfilled.
May 2, 2011
April 13, 2011
"Human Error" in TIED WITH A BOW
Release Date: November 2011
ISBN: not available yet
Returning characters: Surprise! It's Benedict and Arjenie now.
Update!
As many of you know, I finished DEATH MAGIC recently. Time to launch into the novella that will be part of the TIED WITH A BOW anthology, out in November . . . but there was a problem. TIED WITH A BOW is--you can tell from the title, right?--a holiday anthology. The story I'd planned to write, featuring Cynna & Cullen and the new baby, wouldn't work because of, um, things that happened in DEATH MAGIC. Which I can't be specific about, but don't worry--The C-couple and the baby are okay. They just don't get a story right now.
Instead, I'm writing "Human Error," which is about Arjennie and Benedict. It's Christmas and Benedict is going to spend the holiday with Arjenie's family . . . her large, Wiccan, entirely human family. Who he hasn't met. Now, Benedict has lived most of his life at Clanhome, surrounded by lupi. He isn't used to fitting in with humans. He even asked his brother for advice about clothes, hoping to create the right impression.
So it's a shame the way things go wrong from the moment he gets out of the car . . . .
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Human Error
Instead, I'm writing "Human Error," which is about Arjennie and Benedict. It's Christmas and Benedict is going to spend the holiday with Arjenie's family . . . her large, Wiccan, entirely human family. Who he hasn't met. Now, Benedict has lived most of his life at Clanhome, surrounded by lupi. He isn't used to fitting in with humans. He even asked his brother for advice about clothes, hoping to create the right impression.
So it's a shame the way things go wrong from the moment he gets out of the car . . . .
March 29, 2011
DEATH MAGIC is written!
Release Date: November 2011
ISBN: 978-0425245125
Returning characters: Rule and Lily
Check out the DEATH MAGIC bookshelf page
[image error]. . . note that I didn't say finished--but it's written. Now it waits in my very busy editor's inbox before being zapped to the copy editor, after which it returns my editor for a line edit--then their combined labors arrive in my inbox for further tweaking.
That's the version I usually pull an excerpt from.
I may be crazy for doing it differently this time, but if you want to be crazy with me--or you're curious about what my writing looks like before all the editorial fine-tuning--you can read a raw, my-editor-hasn't-even-read-this-yet excerpt.
(Beware the typo monster. Messy beast. It leaves its dropping everywhere, and I can only clean up the ones I see. Which, somehow, is never all of them.)
March 5, 2011
BLOOD MAGIC could win an award with your help
