Sometimes, you sort of muddle along and figure out a character as you go.  And sometimes, it hits you like a clue-by-four, right between the eyes. Working on [project name redacted] yesterday, I took a Tumblr break to rest my brain, and was handed the visual* that will be [character name redacted] for my entire damned life. […]
The email fairy brought two bits of Good News this week! 1. Â The contracts from Audible for all four PSI novels (HARD MAGIC, PACK OF LIES, Â TRICKS OF THE TRADE and DRAGON JUSTICE) arrived! So now the entire Cosa Nostradamus catalog will be available in audiobook, and I just have to convince them to
So, a long while back (two years, more or less) I had a story out on submission. And an editor said “I like this, I want to buy it. But… we haven’t signed the contract for the anthology I want to buy it for yet so can I hold onto it for a while?” And
A story sale, and a story behind it… Read More »
Yesterday, I put the final touches on the revisions for SOUL OF FIRE, and sent it off to madame editrix. The next time I see the book, we’ll be in copyedits, and then page proofs, and then a finished book. So it’s not dusted, but yeah… it’s done. And that means my ten year, twelve-book
There’s Got to Be A Morning After…. Read More »
Send them an email like this: Your endings, why they always please me. You don’t wrap everything in a neat package. You leave things for the reader to think about and work at, you let the reader be involved. Thats what I loved about the end of Vineart…..As a reader I hate packaged endings- nothing
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You know, if you have a desire for such a thing. He has been taken. And you are his only chance.” That wasn’t something Jan expected to hear-especially from strangers who’d just rescued her from some mysterious and ferocious creatures. And she really hadn’t expected her rescuers to be shape-shifters…. Now it turns out
Heart of Briar is up for pre-order! Read More »
The first “Sylvan Investigations” novella, that is. This is the first of the Kickstarted novellas, following after DRAGON JUSTICE, spinning off half-faun PI Danny Hendrickson into his own series. We sent the file off to backers last week, and I’ve…well, been a little on edge, ever since.  I got one “I loved it!” from
What situation, you ask?  This one. This Saturday I saw the New York Times article Barnes and Noble/Simon & Schuster Dispute Said to Hurt Sales. Later in the day, a high-up Simon & Schuster executive also linked to that post from his Facebook account, saying that yes, this is what’s going on. Another article about it
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For Gin&Tonic #3, I needed to name a puppy in the outline. The name I chose was Parsifal. No, I have no idea why I chose that name, except it seemed ‘right.’ Fast forward months later, when I’m writing the actual scene wherein the puppy is found. I have the main character checking out what
Truth. Fiction. Weird Intersections. Read More »
The “Dog Talk” interview I did a while back is online now! In which I do a quick reading, talk about the household animals, learning Seattle to write about it, and what’s coming up next…. (go to the 46: mark – the previous guest ran long, so we were squished for time)
L.A. Kornetsky speaks! Read More »