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August 3, 2015
My Paper Baby Learns to Crawl (by Samantha Bryant)
There are so many other talented authors at my publisher, Curiosity Quills! One of them is the clever and funny Samantha Bryant, whose debut novel GOING THROUGH THE CHANGE about menopausal superheroines is unique, witty, brilliant, and even important. I can’t remember the last genre book I’ve read where women over fifty get the spotlight! I loved the book and you all should definitely get a copy to see it for yourself. The following is a guest post from Samatha herself as she talks about the...
July 22, 2015
Five Things You’ll Never See Me Write (Without a Lampshade)
As anyone who’s had time to read my debut will tell you, I’m not the sort of writer who shies away from negativity. My characters are all deeply flawed and occasionally unpleasant people, and I’m willing — some might say eager! — to dive deep into the uglier aspects of the average person’s psyche. We’re all a little horrible, and the world is full of horrible things, and I’m a big believer that art should imitate life.
And… with all that said, here are five very real things that you’re never...
July 19, 2015
Metrics of Success
Have you ever sat down and tried to sketch out an exact scenario that would signify you’ve achieved your dreams?
I did.
About ten years ago, my friends and I were trying to come up with moments like that. Moments where, once they happened, we could sit back and say “Well, all right. That’s it. I did it.” I constructed this scenario:
If someone I’d never met before and didn’t know my family or know someone who knew my family approached me with a physical copy of a book I’d written in hand and...
July 13, 2015
My Baby Turned Loose Into the World
Today is the day!
It was October 4th, 2011, when I wrote the last word of The Deathsniffer’s Assistant. (The last word is “murder,” which is very appropriate.) At the time, I didn’t know if the book was good. I didn’t know if I could ever find an agent, much less a publisher. I didn’t know if anyone on earth would ever read it.
Fast forward! Years later, I have the best agent, the funnest publisher, and strangers all over the world are holding my book and breaking into the first pages. I have...
July 10, 2015
What’s In A Name?
I’m going to go a lot more personal today than I have in the past. There’s now a mere weekend between us and the release of The Deathsniffer’s Assistant, and I thought I’d take a moment to talk about the name that’s on the front cover: Kate McIntyre.
It ‘s not my name. Not the one that appears on my passport or birth certificate or driver’s license. But what is a name, really? Something we inherit combined with something we’ve given. And there’s value to be found in the names we choose for ou...
July 4, 2015
Book 2 Gets a Title!
I know, I know! You’re all still eagerly waiting for the first book, which is still a week away, and here I am talking about the second! But my first round of revisions and alpha reading are finished and we’ve settled on a title for book two of The Faraday Files…
The Timeseer’s Gambit!
After all the torture I’ve gone through trying to come up with a title for this book, I’m very, very happy with this one! It’s nice to stop calling it “Deathsniffer 2″ and start calling it by an actual name, to...
July 2, 2015
Another Giveaway for THE DEATHSNIFFER’S ASSISTANT!
In addition to the Rafflecopter Giveaway, (which has ten days left and you can enter here!) we’ve also launched a Goodreads Giveaway! This is super easy to enter if you have a Goodreads account, only taking a single click! You can enter here on Goodreads. And be sure to add the book to your to-read list!
We’re only a week and a half away, now… I can’t believe it!
June 29, 2015
Enter the Rafflecopter Giveaway for THE DEATHSNIFFER’S ASSISTANT!
We’re running a giveaway where you can win a free signed copy of THE DEATHSNIFFER’S ASSISTANT mailed to your front door! There are tons of different ways to enter by signal boosting the giveaway or otherwise supporting me and the book online! With less than two weeks left before the book is out (eek!), I appreciate all the support I can get!
Click here to enter the giveaway!
June 25, 2015
Seeing Your (Literary) Baby for the First Time
“You’re not going to believe this,” one of my closest friends texted me to say a week ago. “There was a box from Amazon on my doorstep when I got home from work.”
He then sent me this photograph:
Oh my god.
It seemed that Amazon had made an error. Everyone who’d ordered the book in those first few hours it was up on the site had a copy shipped to them — almost a full month early!
I couldn’t believe it. I still can’t believe it. Look at that. That’s my book! That’s my title, my characters, my...
June 16, 2015
The Way That You Cheer and Scream For Me
I’ve documented my shameful and yet devoted adoration of contemporary Pop Music. I love all music! Really I do. From trance to drum&bass, from country to world, from alt-rock to folk-rock, from classic rock to just plain classical. I don’t think there’s a single genre that I don’t like, and I can have one window open with Blackmore’s Night while another right beside it is paused in the middle of a Kanye West B-side, and meanwhile I’ve got Allie X playing on my phone.
But despite my eclectic t...
