I’m posting my New Year’s Resolutions again. You’re invited to post or link to your own, so that we can see what we’ve all got planned. My resolutions come in very few flavors for the coming year—last year was a great education for me, and some things turned out better than I expected. What I have below are what I … Continue reading →
My goals for the year coming: ================= Before the end of January Finish novel crit for Writer X ================= ================= Before the end of MARCH Finish RUBY KEY Write 50 pages and synopsis for Editor A Write three chapters and synopsis for for editor B (These are all solid, must-do goals) ================= ================= Before the end of the year (Will … Continue reading →
I’m delighted to announce the arrival of the second and final volume of Lazette Gifford’s standing-room-only 2-Year-Novel course. Buy today, read today! … Continue reading →
I’d like to take the time to thank each of you who has faced out a copy of Talyn at your bookstore, or bought a copy for yourself or someone else, or recommended it to a friend or a bookseller. I apologize for being so distracted by garbage that I haven’t taken the time to say this properly. It’s been … Continue reading →
Initially my concept for Refugee was as a contemporary crossover fantasy. However, my agent made a very good comment about the way the beginning of the thing didn’t work, and in figuring out the new beginning, the project metamorphosed into a high fantasy. The new opening? On her wedding day, a princess whose marriage will seal a peace treaty between … Continue reading →
The charming correspondence I have had with [the pseudonymous] Jane Little at DearAuthor.com, who believes frank lying about someone is a protected form of free speech. You’ll notice that in this entire exchange, I have never threatened Ms. Little once. I have never suggested suing or seeking to have her site shut down. I have, in fact, done nothing but … Continue reading →
My question in the Bookseller Furor post about what happened to Barry Hughart and Alis Rasmussen was rhetorical. I know what happened to both of them; I was oddly involved in both writers’ careers. Barry Hughart was the brilliant, World-Fantasy-Award-winning author of Bridge of Birds and its sequels, The Story of the Stone, and Eight Skilled Gentlemen. I came into … Continue reading →
It would be lovely if people would learn to read what was written, or would perhaps not so closely identify themselves with their jobs that they believe a hostile comment about a bad corporate business practice was a hostile comment about themselves. For the record, then, to those of you who are chain booksellers: Read what I wrote, dammit, and … Continue reading →
The Christmas season and all of its attendant hoopla have landed with a reverberant thunk at my house. With an astonishing number of things to do, and no where near enough time to do them, I have to make time where I can. So I’ll be hard to find here for the next few weeks. I’ll post as I can, … Continue reading →