Category: Cady I: Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood
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When is Cadence Drake 1: Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood going to be out?
Question was asked elsewhere. I’m making the answer its own separate post. When is Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood going to be out. Okay. Tentative date is next Tuesday, but here’s what has to happen first. I’m printing out the page proofs for the trade paper version now. My brother-in-law is coming over tomorrow (I hope)…
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WABWM: Planned a battle scene, but forgot to plan a battle
7:23 AM Today I feel good, which is a great change. Picking up where I left Cady yesterday (in trouble and knowingly heading into worse trouble), and looking forward to seeing what damage I can do to the universe today. STARTING COUNT: 67,009 GOAL: 1500+ STARTING SCENE: In the Dark Good luck, folks. Get good…
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WABWM: Dark, dark, dark today…but fun
7:12 AM Headache woke me, I’ve started my day with aspirin and Tylenol, and that’s never a great way to start. But I’m here, I’m a bit early, and my folks are in trouble. So it’s time to make the trouble deeper and stickier. STARTING COUNT: 65,278 GOAL: 1500+ STARTING SCENE: In the Dark Read…
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WABWM: Momentum
7:30 AM I’m not as better as I’d thought yesterday. :-/ But still good enough to work. And will be starting this morning with the lyrics for the HUNTING THE CORRIGAN’S BLOOD song, “Didn’t Expect That,” which I worked out, along with most of the melody, in the shower this morning. But after the lyrics,…
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Do I still recommend John Locke? No.
Back at the end of June, 2011, I read a book that succeeded because of a lie, and I turned my entire life upside down as a result of that lie. The book was, of course, John Locke’s How I Sold 1 Million Ebooks in 5 Months. Like a lot of other writers, I let…
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SNIPPET: Warpaint (or How Cadence Drake woke me at 3 AM)
So there I was, sleeping, and into my mind crept the image of a glowing map, across which stains of blood slowly crept. As dreams go, it wasn’t much, except that it woke me out of a sound sleep at 3AM, and told me something I’d desperately needed to know about Cady, the world of…
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Ready to start writing Cady 2
I outline my novels on index cards. I go over the process a little in one of my site workshops, and a LOT in How to Think Sideways, but my process is about as seat-of-the-pants as it’s possible to get while still having an idea where you want to end up. And as of this…
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Discussing “Fun…With Teeth”
Back when I first got published, I signed a lot of my books with a little extra exuberance—I drew a toothy smiley face and wrote in under it the words “Fun…With Teeth.” Which was how I saw my fiction—I always wanted my readers to laugh, but I wanted some real edge in there, too. Because,…
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My Birthday Bash: Presents for You
Yeah, my birthday is almost here, and I decided this year to celebrate by giving presents to other people. And not just on my actual birthday, either. I’m giving away presents every day next week, plus a couple of presents starting today. So what are your presents? Day One (that’s today): Any two of my…
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Cady gets an ad campaign
It occurred to me today that, in the almost-year I’ve had an affiliate program, I never did an ad for Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood. So today I created an HTCB campaign. Still working on the other ads, haven’t uploaded any of them to the affiliate program just yet, but I think this does the story…