Why is writing the first draft hard? Because it’s like trying to spin mist. You know the perfect book is in here somewhere. You sometimes have glimpses of it, but it’s like a Platonic Ideal – you can never achieve it in real life. Plus, the book you want to write is nebulous. Every sentence,…
Well, we seem to be on the mend. My willpower still doesn’t seem to be connected to anything – I keep thinking that I must answer emails and then not doing it, but at least Rose is lots better and thinking about going to school later this week. Meanwhile I’ve been reading – and enjoying…
As we have suspected swine flu in the house. At least, Rose is shivery, achy, has a high temperature and is (thanks to the advice of the swine flu hotline) on Tamiflu. I’m not feeling too wonderful myself, so editing and anything else have taken a back seat to getting her to drink enough, and…
I feel like a real author now 🙂 I was looking on Amazon for the cover of Ursula LeGuin’s “The Left Hand of Darkness” and thought I would just check how False Colors was doing. Not so bad, thankfully. However, I did find that since I looked at it last I’d received my first ever…
I DO TWO! After the huge success of I DO, an anthology in support of Marriage Equality, we’re delighted to announce that there’ll be a second volume, I DO TWO, with a planned publication date of 14th February 2010. The project has an editorial team – Alex Beecroft, Charlie Cochrane, Sophia Deri-Bowen, Lee Rowan –…
OK, so with both children ill at home I won’t be doing editing today. However, I have started up that cover art comm I mentioned yesterday, imaginatively called Cover_artists You can find it here ~*~*~*~ There seem to be lots of comms out there to talk about writing, but I couldn’t find any in which…
This morning I got an email from someone on Facebook inviting me to join a cover-art group. I thought this was a fantastic idea – we could swap techniques and ideas, share brushes and textures and maybe even club together to occasionally employ a photographer for a cover shoot. Unfortunately, when I clicked on the…
So, the girls are back in school, Andrew is back at work, and so am I. I’ve started serious edits on Boys of Summer. Unfortunately this means actually writing the sex scenes that I faded to black on during the first draft. And that involves thinking way more deeply about the emotional states of both…
When I posted the picture of Captain’s Surrender’s new cover, a couple of people said “Oh no, I really like that, but I’ve got the old version!” So I thought that it might be nice to make a dust-cover for the old version, using the new cover art. You can find it here: http://alexbeecroft.com/freebies/ and…
Eeeeeee! When I decided to stick with Samhain as the publisher for CS, it was partially because I really liked their covers, and I was hoping for something a bit more tasteful than the one it had previously. I was given the usual cover art questionnaire thing, and I filled it in exhaustively, hoping that…
