Two Tips for finishing a novel
I’ve posted on the metawriter community on LJ today. The subject was ‘back to basics’ so I went as basic as it was possible to get 🙂
I’ve posted on the metawriter community on LJ today. The subject was ‘back to basics’ so I went as basic as it was possible to get 🙂
Ah well, I thought it was too easy. I’ve just had a reply from Waterstones’ event organizer, who I emailed in an attempt to arrange a book signing. She says “Unfortunately this is not something that would for us here in Piccadilly” and encourages me to try my local branch. However, given that my local…
I may have mentioned before that I’m not the kind of writer who sees a movie in their head and writes down what happens from that. I’m the kind who has a head full of grey fog above a dark and unseen lake of words. I don’t have pictures of anything. If I want to…
This is almost certainly the round that False Colors gets trashed. I’ve been watching the first two rounds, and FC tends to get around 300 votes, while Zero at the Bone gets around 600. I strongly suspect that me begging for votes is not going to make any difference. So I won’t beg, I’ll just…
Hwaet! I was on Twitter the other day when I intercepted a tweet from Dvorah saying “My next book is going to feature an asexual character, so if anyone has suggestions for what to do/not to do, I’d love to talk about it!” My first thought was “I am an asexual and I have written…
I’m going a bit mad with this blog posting thing this week. Updated this one on Tuesday, and today I’m blogging on Samhain’s blog about how book research is a good excuse to watch more TV 🙂 http://www.samhainpublishing.com/2011/02/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-war/
Hee! Well, my nervous trepidation over what the cover art for Shining in the Sun would be like is over, and I have to say I am thrilled 🙂 It makes such a difference, when you know that the novel you’ve angsted over and spent so long on, polishing every word, will be going out…