by Christie Meierz | Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Five chapters left to edit. I’m down to the very hardest part. This time last year, I was struggling with the first edition of Daughters of Suralia. Talking it over with The Husband, bouncing ideas off friends, taking my husband’s old college roomie out to...
by Christie Meierz | Feb 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Australian science fiction writer AC Flory recently tagged me in a blog chain focusing on how writers write. Meeks, as her friends affectionately call her, is writing a series of books from an alien point of view, the first of which, Vokhtah, is out in e-book format....
by Christie Meierz | Jan 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
Pretty much a relaxicon for us — I wasn’t on the programming. They’d had a glut of authors volunteering this year, so they were full up by the time I volunteered (months ago, in what would have been plenty of time any other year, even). So, we pretty...
by Christie Meierz | Jan 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’m a seat-of-the-pants sort of writer. When I start a book, I have in mind a character, a situation, and a direction it’s going, but that’s usually all. After I wrote the first draft of The Fall, I had this idea: take a particular character from...
by Christie Meierz | Dec 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
The vuvuzela made the news in recent years when it began to give South African soccer enthusiasts hearing damage. For those who don’t want to follow the link, a vuvuzela is basically a plastic horn that plays one — just one — note. Loudly. This...
by Christie Meierz | Dec 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller are over on Clan Korval’s Home on the Web doing a free giveaway of an audiobook of their latest release, Trade Secret! Star-spanning galactic trader Jethri Gobelyn’s story continues in the seventeenth entry in the Liaden Universe®...
by Christie Meierz | Nov 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Over on Blog Without A Name, author Sharon Lee makes some very good points. Read what she has to say here.
by Christie Meierz | Nov 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
It was 1973. I checked out a book from my junior high school library because it had an interesting cover and took it home to get sucked into a story about a female character who had some kind of adventure taking a ride in the past in someone else’s memories....
by Christie Meierz | Nov 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Nothing like talking about sex at 10am on Sunday morning. Wearing Purple: Female Writers of a Certain Age was a blast. My own conclusion is that having your kids leave home is the ultimate aphrodisiac, and who said sex after 50 isn’t hot, anyhow? The Future of...
by Christie Meierz | Nov 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
My Saturday morning panel, They Aren’t Out There After All, was loads of fun. The rest of Day 2 was spent trying to convince the hotel that the heat in my room was out again. Day 1 actually turned out pretty much like I predicted, except for fighting with the...
