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January 15, 2014
& it’s off!
STONE’S THROE is off to Evil Hat, which means, barring edits on it and SHAMAN RISES (which are due Monday) I’m out of contract.
Normally this would be a terrifying time in a writer’s career, but I’ve got some irons in the fire; my Guildmaster Saga, the YA novels I’ve been working on, are being shopped around, and I’m looking at Patreon to do a MAGIC & MANNERS crowdfund. So those are cool things, and we’ll see how they go. Everything else is longer term (like, y’know, stuff I’m planning for Fe...
January 14, 2014
Kitsnaps: Red Panda
Kitsnaps: Red Panda
Kitsnaps: Red Panda
Red Panda: the November picture for the 2014 CE Murphy photographic calendar.
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GGK Book Club: THE SUMMER TREE, ch 5-8
Guys, I have totally not re-read the next four chapters. #embarrassed to death
However, just because I haven’t re-read them lately is no reason for other people to have to wait on discussing them, so I’m going to open up the comments (ideally on the mizkit.com site) for discussion for those of you who ARE keeping up. Spoil away, since I have, after all, *read* them, if not for some time. :)
I should, I hope, be back on track next week, but I’m doing revisions on a book that’s due tomorrow and...
commissioned short stories!
I have a burst of short story writing coming up, stuff I’ve owed people for some time, and along with it there’s a distinct possiblity I’m going to be offering up to five commissioned short stories for a fundraising campaign my sister will be running soon.
These stories will be about 3000-5000 words and can, within reason, be anything the patron wants: I’ll write in any of my established universes (albeit nothing with Walker Papers spoilers), or I’ll write something new; retold fairy tales, a...
January 13, 2014
Kitsnaps: Snow Leopard
Kitsnaps: Snow Leopard
Kitsnaps: Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard: the October picture for the 2014 CE Murphy photographic calendar.
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Kitsnaps: Mara
Kitsnaps: Mara
Kitsnaps: Mara
Mara: the September picture for the 2014 CE Murphy photographic calendar.
Maras are South American rodents which look precisely like jackalopes; all they lack are the horns. They’re very very shy and extremely sweet-seeming creatures, but I have no idea, possibly they go all vorpal bunny on you if you get in their faces. :)
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Magic & Manners crowdfund
I mentioned this on various social media yesterday, but I’m still thinking about it now, so I’ll post here with more thought and detail.
I’m enormously enjoying writing MAGIC & MANNERS, my Pride-and-Prejudice-with-magic pastiche, and I’ve been contemplating what to do with it. I’d like to keep going, but being a writer, I’d also like to get paid for my words (crazy, I know!). I’m also particularly enjoying the whole no-particular-deadline aspect, which means I don’t know that I want to sell it...
January 12, 2014
boom: it’s a draft
Ten days and 35K later, STONE’S THROE can be called a draft. It’s a god-awful mess and needs serious revision, but the draft is done and the rest can be fixed. By Wednesday. @.@
Actually, there are parts of the book I’m happy with, and it came in at the wordcount I was aiming for, so I’m okay with that. And, er, I actually find that having finished it, I’m kind of hoping for the chance to write The Further Adventures of Amelia Stone, so I guess we’ll just have to see how the book does. :)
Um. Y...
January 10, 2014
baklava!
O.M.G.
I sent my friend Marc some fudge in December because, er, well, frankly, he made it easy by just posting his address on one of the pictures of fudge I’d posted, and it amused me, so, fudge.
I just got the same container back in the mail, except now it was filled with Marc’s baklava.
Let me explain this to you: Marc’s baklava is to regular baklava what my fudge is to regular fudge. I got the package and was all like “Oh huh, mail from Marc, maybe he got something to say thanks for the fudg...
January 9, 2014
Kitsnaps: Zen Master
Zen Master
Zen Master
Zen Master: the August picture for the 2014 CE Murphy photographic calendar.
I actually have quite a few good orangutan pictures, almost none of which I’ve posted. But once I’m done with the calendar images I’m going to try to, er, post not-animals for a while, so there may not be any orangutans to show off despite having good pictures of them. :)
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