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 […]
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
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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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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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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 »
Post-convention introvert crash: when even picking up the phone to order food delivery is too much interaction with other people. Due to various programming-related SNAFUs, this Lunacon was…slightly disorganized (programming was only finalized the Thursay before, and many of us didn’t even get our schedule until Friday night or Saturday morning). Plus, attendance was clearly
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Monday. Oh god, the Do-Board for today is more than slightly insane. But it’s (almost) all Good and Interesting, so yay? To Do: Deflag the copyedit for HEART OF BRIAR Look over the revisions letter for SOUL OF FIRE (yeah, mine editor was late with the revisions letter so I’m behind the schedule. Such as
Can we have two Tuesdays instead of a Monday? I think that would work much better…. Read More »
*worked up and submitted a proposal for a project in a new-to-me side of publishing. *was interviewed for DOGTALK (a radio show) and was introduced solely by my pseudonym for the first time. That was… kind of surreal. *was unexpectedly submitted (and got preliminary approval) for a project that could be a lot of fun.
Over on Civilian Reader, wherein we discuss who I am, what I do, and how I know I’m not a cartoon character… In other news, there’s not a lot to tell…yet. Hold onto that YET for a while longer….
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Last week, I got an email from Madame Editrix, saying she had read the manuscript for FIXED (Gin & Tonic #2) and loved it. And that I should prepare for incoming notes. (Because no book is so good that a good editor can’t show you how to make it better. That’s me saying that, not
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