In which the Author sighs with relief

And so it begins. I wrote an email to my editor, attached the re-edited Daughters of Suralia manuscript, and clicked send. Within hours I received an acknowledgment; she had just begun to cast about for the next editing project. My timing was impeccable. We shall see...

Monday, Monday

As those of you who know me on Facebook know, I love Monday. Today, my friend Sharon Lee asked her readers how the start of their week was going. Being as I’m a reader, I put chin in hand and thought about it. Being as I’m a writer, I decided to blog it,...
Taking a Spork to Suralia

Taking a Spork to Suralia

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...

The Writing Process

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....

ConFusion 2014

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...