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January 1, 2018
Goals: January 2018
There’s nothing like ringing in the new year with some writing goals.
Last month I hoped to accomplish:
RIVER RUNNING REVISION with Tamara- CHECK We are nearly through, just a few more comments and issues to resolve. LIGHT & SHADOW REVISION- CHECK Finished this in good time and I’ve sent it to some readers. WRITE NEW BOOK IDEA- CHECK As expected, I didn’t get very far, but I did make some progress. ALASKA ESSAYS- CHECK This project is coming along, and I hope to be nearly finished by the en...
December 29, 2017
The Top Ten Books I read in 2017
I went into 2017 aiming to read diverse fiction books and non-fiction. I definitely read diverse books, though I failed to read many from earlier eras.
I also set out with the idea that I was going to use my reading as an escape. I’d been feeling pretty down at the end of 2016 after Election Day. My therapy for my disappointment was reading whatever I wanted during 2017.
Looking back over the books that really left an impression on me in 2017, it turns out most of them weren’t escape reads, t...
December 1, 2017
Goals: December 2017
November Nanowrimo went really well. Tamara and I finished our draft (81K) of The Seventh Symphony in two weeks, making a new record for us. With all these drafts in my hands, it looks like December and January will be months of revisions, my favorite part of writing.
In November my goals were:
WRITE THE SEVENTH SYMPHONY first draft with Tamara-CHECK! We did it easily. Now the draft will stew while we revise the earlier book, The Eighth Octave, to match any changes needed due to the new bran...October 31, 2017
Goals : November 2017
October proved to be an excellent writing month, as Tamara and I plunged into a Nanowrimo-before-Nano in order to draft the sequel to River Running in one month. After an early rocky patch, we pulled it off, and happily we now hold an 82,000-word draft of Wind Winging in our blistered hands.
Up next, we face the real National Novel Writing Month, during which we intend to write the sequel to The Eighth Octave. This book is titled The Seventh Symphony, and we are well prepared with an epic 19-...
September 30, 2017
Goals: October 2017
September was a strong and consistent month of writing for me. I’m nearly finished with my Light & Shadow rewrite and Tamara and I managed yet another small revision on The Eighth Octave after a revise & resubmit opportunity from one of the agents we pitched in New York.
In October Tamara and I have big plans to get a jump start on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, usually November) by writing our sequel to River Running, tentatively titled Stone Speaking. Can we write a whole book in...
September 1, 2017
Goals : September 2017
Whew! What a whirlwind of a month August was. I experienced a highlight of my writing life when I went to NYC to meet my co-writer Tamara Shoemaker for the first but not last time, and we pitched our two co-written books to agents (with a cheering amount of interest!). The pitching was nerve-wracking, the conference was good, but the best thing was getting to meet Tamara face to face and enjoy four days in her company. It was a creative supercharge, and Tamara and I, after living like the (g)...
August 11, 2017
Fan Art Friday: Week Five
This week, in anticipation of meeting the woman herself at the Writer’s Digest Conference in NYC, I made fan art for Tamara Shoemaker’s Guardian of the Vale YA fantasy series.
I happened to have made the box set cover for this series already, and so I took the look I developed for the box set cover–a spired, futuristic cityscape and lush skyline lights–and translated it into covers for the three books.
This series involves elemental magic, so each covers has an elemental theme, too:
August 4, 2017
Fan Art Friday: Week Four
As promised, this week I am showing my next two Tales of Blood & Light alternate covers for FAN ART FRIDAY.
Sterling’s cover features the color of her aetherlight, bright yellow, and the Emerald Ophira, her special magic stone:
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And Mage and Source’s cover features the Sapphire Ophira as the focal point and a blend of the narrators’ aetherlights as the background:
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Enjoy!
July 31, 2017
Goals: August 2017
Oops. I really didn’t stick to my goals in July, but I didn’t just drop the ball, I simply shifted my focus.
My July Goals were:
PUBLISH MAGE & SOURCE This I did accomplish, so CHECK for me. Did you buy it yet? WRITE Daughter of Fortune ending. Nope. I received my developmental edit of Light & Shadow back from Tamara Shoemaker and got overly excited about doing rewrites for that, so Light & Shadow became my ToB&L focus for the month. WRITE something else- I read over a WIP tentatively called...July 28, 2017
Fan Art Friday: Week 3
This week on Fan Art Friday, in celebration of the release of Mage and Source, I’m offering up two new covers for my own books, The Gantean and The Cedna.
My real book covers feature portraits of my narrators, but for a different concept, I decided to show the magical aspect of the books and the ongoing saga of the Ophirae stones, the connecting plot arc of the entire series of Tales of Blood & Light.
On the cover of The Gantean, you see the mysterious red Ophira stone that Leila brought with...
