I ripped out a big chunk of happy, and replaced it with mean, bad, terrible, monstrous, scary… The happy is now all the way at the end of the book, where it belongs, not right smack dab in the middle where things are supposed to be going from bad to worse. So now things are good —… Continue reading Yup. That worked like gangbusters: 1376 words, 58,903 total
Category: Last Girl Dancing
Why I shut down my Patreon fundraiser
I’d intended to send a Questions & Answers email to my How to Write a Novel launch list, but that’s going to have to wait.Instead, I did THIS. Closed my “Move out of Florida while writing fiction” fundraiser. Here’s why — it’s this clause in the Patreon Legal Agreement https://www.patreon.com/legal By posting content to Patreon you grant us a… Continue reading Why I shut down my Patreon fundraiser
The New Paranormal Suspense Covers
I finished the following covers for my upcoming novels today: Midnight Rain I See You Last Girl Dancing Night Echoes Because of a bit of a financial bump, I’m pushing hard to get all the backlist up in the next couple of months. To my amazement (because I thought exactly the opposite), I think the… Continue reading The New Paranormal Suspense Covers
A Book Giveaway (sort of)
Lots of my novels for free if you’ll pay the postage.
If I Brought Lambs
The novel LAST GIRL DANCING was born as IF I BROUGHT LAMBS, on 9/1/96, with the following poem that I wrote. I’ve included the whole page, because initially each chapter was supposed to be preceded by a poem from the killer, and, finding it this morning, I thought the header was kind of funny. Along… Continue reading If I Brought Lambs
Autographed Books Hit the Mail
I spent a couple of hours last night autographing the nine copies of Talyn for Sheila’s contest winners. “A couple of hours?” you say. Well, for some of them, I came up with all-new Old Tonk Proverbs. On some, I drew the winner’s Tonk monogram. (This would appropriately be worn tattooed between the shoulder blades,… Continue reading Autographed Books Hit the Mail
Pausing to Think
Novel outline is going well, but I needed a break, so I surfed. Douglas Hoffman gave a nice review of Last Girl Dancing; Jcop wants to know where the fourth book in the WORLD GATES series is (Hint: When I’m howlingly successful, the publisher will probably want the last four planned books. Meantime, I did… Continue reading Pausing to Think
“Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated”
Quote from Twain. Some numbers from Midnight Rain. ‘Cause you know I was to the point of reinventing myself because of my fear of the numbers on Midnight Rain, and the fact that I’d heard it hadn’t done as well as everyone hoped. How well did it do? In its first reporting period, it earned… Continue reading “Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated”
Amazon/ WalMart
Fascinating discussion here about the difference between Amazon numbers and WalMart numbers. Link via Alison Kent As someone who, for the first time in my career, has (with my debut into suspense) landed a couple of titles on WalMart shelves, I’m more than a bit interested in what effect this will really have on my… Continue reading Amazon/ WalMart
Last Run, and Done
Ended with 96,407 after finishing a sentence I left unfinished in the last ten-minute chat run. 3176 words for the day. To the post office now to mail LGD. Then back to see about adding some to the proposal idea I came up with for Claire. And then some reading on TALYN, which has to… Continue reading Last Run, and Done
