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Word count on “Away with the Faeries” 15085 / 50000 words. 30% done! So, I’ve completed 30% of the novel in the first week. But despite my defense of NaNo on the metawriters site and elsewhere, I think I’ve decided to give up for this year and possibly for good. I’m really not enjoying it…
A great review from Dear Author Not, perhaps, my highest scoring review yet, but one that makes me want to write meta about my own story. She’s spot on that in this one I was perhaps more interested in the murder mystery/ghost story than I was in the romance. Also that it was a deliberate…
Finally got to see the new Star Trek film on Sunday and spent most of Monday reading fanfic because it was just that good 🙂 Seriously, looking at that trailer, you’d want to watch it anyway, even if it wasn’t Star Trek: TOS given new life. It’s got explosions and battles in space and mad…
But Alex, what the heck is the Arising Series? How come you’ve never mentioned this before? Springing this on us as a bit of a surprise, aren’t you? Well, hypothetical reader, you make a good point. However, I have talked before about The Glass Floor, my novel in which Wallachian noble Radu and his lover…
It’s nice to see people’s sales ranks returning even in far flung regions of Amazon such as Amazon.co.uk. It meant that I could turn to worrying about pleasanter things like how well False Colors was doing. Today has even had a lot of squee in it, after the large doses of OMG!WTF of the weekend. …
4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters! I segued imperceptibly between making up childish games – “you’re King Richard, and you’ve been captured by the Saracens, and we’re your knights and are coming to look for you…” – and writing down stories where the characters did what I thought they ought to, rather…
