Category: Trainwrecks & Ghosts
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Here’s that Wrong Left Turn In Albuquerque… and it’s as bad as I dreaded.
The first sixty pages of Ohio 3 held up fine. Starting on manuscript page 61, I went in exactly the wrong direction, dropped the really good local character I had in place for one who broke my otherwise tight worldbuilding through two novels and the start of this one all to shit, threw in a…
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Dead Man’s Party — and Fiction as the Day Job again…
Got 1515+ words this morning on Dead Man’s Party, in a smidge under an hour. Also built my work process for getting a LOT more fiction done, and spending the first two to three hours of every weekday on that. My daughter Becca is going to modify the process I came up with (after some…
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Dreaming the Dead
It was 1:37 AM when I woke up. It’s 1:48 AM right now, and I’m still shaky. I dreamed I was visited by Jim Baen, and by someone speaking for him. I didn’t know his intermediary, but Jim Baen was my first publisher, and he taught me a huge amount about the business, and, frankly,…
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Friday Snippets: From the Ghost Files
I’m at a point where I really can’t post any more of the Moonroads book, at least not for a while. But I still want to do Friday Snippets. So I figured for your amusement and edification, I’d post snippets from the stuff I’ve had rejected but that I still intend to keep trying to…
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Hak bas gokmat!
The language of the Sun Wizards is adding a bit of low comedy to the story. That particular phrase has giving Genna and her best friend Catri a nasty wake-up call—and sends them hurtling into an adventure with the silver door. And they’ve found a sort of newspaper, one about as scary as anything they’ve…
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And A Sale
Time to drag out the endless saga of the Onyx Proposal, but this time for happy news. Claire just bought Shadow Music, one of the books I worked up in the series of about a dozen that I did for the Onyx Proposal. Shadow Music sold to a different Penguin line (Eclipse), with a release…
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So. About the Writing.
So. Penguin. The EMT Proposal is toast. We’re discussing me going in an entirely different direction. I’m not posting details until we’ve sealed the deal, because there are some things about it that I might not be completely free to discuss. It isn’t what I’d planned on, but it does offer some interesting possibilities.