Month: September 2006
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Why do you rant?
I got an email wanting to know why I put the occasional political or social-issue rant into a writing blog. I’ve previously had blog guests ask me the same question in comments. The answer goes like this. I hate politics. I hate social-issue strife. For years I lived in a voluntary news blackout zone, because…
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Collectible Author Cards
My friend Keely just sent me this collectible author cards link. I had to laugh. Download as PDFPrint Page
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Done with NIGHT ECHOES
Have emailed the revised version to my editor and my agent. All that remains is to get the hard-copy in the mail. I’ll be taking the next week off. Things away from writing need my attention right now. Download as PDFPrint Page
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Where I’ve been
Thursday crashed and burned with some stressful family news. A migraine ate Friday. So today I’m playing catch-up. Long way to go. Download as PDFPrint Page
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Tick Tock
The goal, of course, is to get the entire type-in on NIGHT ECHOES done today (especially since, in a perfect world, it would have been typed in and overnighted to my editor yesterday, and this morning it is neither), and in time to get to the post office with room to spare to overnight the…
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Changes Upcoming
The blogroll is going to get an update as soon as I finish NIGHT ECHOES. Categories will tie into world and language building from either the Korre universe or the Moon and Sun universe, and I’ll be adding some new weblogs. (I’m finally getting back to reading the ones already there, after months of being…
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The update on NIGHT ECHOES
Spent the weekend figuring out ways to insert a couple of necessary scenes in NIGHT ECHOES, and ways to replace the couple I have to pull out. It has not been simple, because the replacements are critical red herrings, and upon the grace with which they can be substituted rests the success of the novel.…
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Depressing and Creepy
I live a quiet life (these days, anyway). I don’t go anywhere, I don’t have any sort of in-the-flesh presence anywhere, I don’t do cons or signings. To everyone in the world except for the tiny handful of people who actually know me, I’m either letters on a page or letters on a screen. So…
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Um … Office Chores Today
Will be writing again tomorrow. Download as PDFPrint Page
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DONE
Done, done, done with HAWKSPAR, it is off to my editor and my agent, and I am so happy. Also taking tomorrow off. Back Wednesday. Download as PDFPrint Page