Hammered

Which is the title of a fabulous Elizabeth Bear novel, but also a description of my brain tonight.

Every book I write provides its own unique set of pitfalls and challenges. In other words, each book writes differently.

But I can safely say that my books tend to fall into three overall sets, the Beethoven books, the Mozart books, and the other ones. Not, mind you, that I am comparing myself as an artist to these two musical geniuses. I'm just noting that the stereotypical understanding of ho...