Pocket Full of Words

Joshua Middleton, my magnificent cover artist for The Ruby Key and The Silver Door (I’ve seen it; I’m not allowed to share yet; it’s stunning) has a very nice interview over at Tor right now.
I had no idea I got his first novel cover ever. Talk about getting lucky…
And thanks to Craig Campbell, who [...]

I’ve been haunting the local bookstore, and THE RUBY KEY isn’t on the shelves yet, so it didn’t really dawn on me that people are already reading it.
But Tina already has a review up (and is giving a copy away), and I’m not ready.
I knit two pairs of Genna’s socks to give away, and they’re [...]

A friend of mine from way back, Robbie Jordan (a.k.a. The Dread Pirate Robbie, when we were role-playing) is starting up a brick-and-mortar indie bookstore in Eden, North Carolina, and because he’s a pretty savvy fellow, as well as a damn fine DM, and one of the first members of our writers’ group, which eventually [...]

Meant to post this Wednesday–my to-do list overran me, and I forgot. I’m sorry.
I’ve had a copy of my cover art for THE RUBY KEY for nearly two
months now. It is, in fact, my desktop wallpaper, and it is gorgeous
beyond words. I’ve been dying to show it to people, but I couldn’t,
because the [...]

On the downside, I didn’t get a chance to post a Friday Snippet yesterday. On the upside, I have 217 pages of the Ruby Key copyedit finished, and when I started yesterday, I had 108. Getting ready to charge in again. The possibility exists that I’ll finish the whole thing today, but [...]

This is the last bit of the Winnowing post over in the publishing forum—the part I think might be of general interest. You are, of course, invited to go over and read and comment on the whole thing.

And that brings me to where I am on pursuing the publisher vs. writer route, which right [...]

Will be busy for the next few days getting the Ruby Key copyedit finished. Copyeditor also loved the book—this is an encouraging thing.
Over the last few days (excluding yesterday, which was a family birthday) I’ve been working on the story arc for the rest of the Moon & Sun series. The story, [...]

The cat has led our heroes to a cave mouth and instructed them to go inside, telling them they’ll know when they’ve gone far enough. And then, he’s gone off hunting. Genna picks up the story from there.

NOTICE: This material is copyrighted, uncopyedited late draft, probably buggy. Do not quote or repost [...]

This is more of the new material from the revision. Genna, Dan, and Yarri have fled Arrienda in search of help. On the road, they run into trouble.

NOTICE: This material is copyrighted, uncopyedited late draft, probably buggy. Do not quote or repost anywhere or in any format. Thanks.

Suddenly Yarri stopped, her [...]

I still feel like absolute death on moldy toast. This is more flu than cold, I think, and it’s clobbering me hard.
But I’m up for the moment, and decided to go ahead and do the Friday Snippet early, then take the rest of the week off (or until such time as I actually feel [...]