Here’s the article. And here’s the full text of the interview I gave: 1) How do you use your website and other online sites (other people’s blogs, your publishers’ websites, etc.) to encourage people to read your work? I stick pretty close to home where promoting my work goes — what promotion I do, I do almost exclusively on my … Continue reading →
INTRODUCTION You want to create your own language? Excellent! Welcome to Language Geekdom, Brother or Sister Geek. The secret password is Skayl-sharga; the secret handshake is thumb and first three fingers in a fist, pinkie extended, hook pinkies, press knuckles together, and shake three times; and your Skayl-sharga Pin is in the mail. (No, not really.) In fact, creating your … Continue reading →
This morning, I’m starting on the Worldbuilding Clinic, specifically the Create a Language section. I finished outlining that section yesterday, and already I’m seeing a problem with the Worldbulding Clinic — as outlined, the Create A Language section is going to be really big, and full of charts and diagrams and print-out-and-use sheets and illustrations. For e-book download purposes, I’m … Continue reading →
Most of the time I don’t talk about my kids. I feel uncomfortable putting them in a spotlight they didn’t ask for. However, I got a call from my daughter that thrilled me. She works full-time and long hours, is out on her own, and supports herself, but she has managed to work her schedule around so that she can … Continue reading →
This on is The One With All the Questions. 100% reader comments and questions. You can listen to it here, or head over to my Libsyn page to get the show notes, links, etc. Episode ran long this time — there were a lot of questions, and while I hit most of them, a few remain. … Continue reading →
Here’s a brand-new, thoughtful review of the Secret Texts trilogy. … Continue reading →
Got the massively revised proposal for the MPII series, with all new series overview, 50% rewritten first three chapters of Book I, 100% new story outline, and heavily revised mini-outlines for books II, III, and IV out the door to my agent. I’m so excited I can’t see straight. After a week of painful slogging and even more painful migraines, … Continue reading →
“Members of Congress piously and piteously claim they are struggling public servants, but it is becoming clearer that way too many of them are using their public positions not to serve their constituents, but to enrich themselves and their friends. Here’s what I think they should do: The August recess is scheduled to begin on July 31 and last until … Continue reading →
The series overview is done. The three mini-outlines (for books two, three, and four) are done. The first seventy pages (three chapters) of book one are done. I’ve tossed the 30-page extended outline for the first book, and am now doing a line-per-scene of the candy-bar scenes I want in the finished book. From that, I’ll work out a new … Continue reading →
I ended up throwing out not just the first scene, but the entire concept of the first scene. Tossed all the new stuff I’d written over the last few days. Gone, all gone, just gone. No more Maddie, Piper, and Jean doing work chat. No job angst — that’ll be there, but not as the opener. Now it’s just Bailey … Continue reading →