I was fortunate enough to be asked to return last week to teach at the Odyssey Writing Workshop, my alma mater, four years after I graduated in 2011. It was an incredible experience to see the workshop from the other side of the table, to interact with the students, and to see student critiques. The […]
Talk Nerdy to Me: James Knapp Talks Text-Based Video Games
Hi All, Please welcome James Knapp to the blog. He’s here to talk about the nerdiest of nerdy video games… the text based ones 🙂 Oh, and he has a new book out called Alice in No Man’s Land – with a giveaway! So check out his site for details. Thanks for joining us for Fun […]
Reader Question: Why Hasn’t Adam “Fixed” His Addiction?
I had a reader contact me today with a question I’ve been asked a few times now, why Adam doesn’t just “fix” his addiction or have it “fixed” by the Guild Structure people. This is a good question! And I love that my readers are thinking deeply about the world and the rules of the […]
The Great Expecting
Hi all, I have some great news! I am preggers. Pregnant. Expecting. Knocked up. It’s traditional to wait until the end of the first trimester to tell everyone, but I’m impatient, so you guys get to find out now (at 11 weeks). Yep, you can totally wish me mazel tov. (I’ll wait 🙂 ) This […]
Talk Nerdy to Me: Real Warp Drive?
So I was surfing the Internet this morning, you know, avoiding writing this post, when I came across this article. Holy crap, Batman. British scientist Roger Shawyer’s odd and highly controversial closed-chamber electromagnetic space propulsion system, the EmDrive, not only works–which we had thought it might, since it tested well last year–but it works in […]
Be Afraid
Be afraid. The food you’re eating. The water you’re drinking. The containers they’re sitting in. The BPA. The non-organic. The processed. The food-bourne illness. The bacteria. The viruses. The mold. The termites. Be afraid. The government, spying on you. The companies, stealing from you. The guy next door to you, the person standing at your […]
Updates & Round Two
As most of you know, I turned my manuscript in early (yay me!) with all of the edits from my editorial letter except one completed. I detailed what I had done in the email, explained why I’d chosen not to do the last small thing (I’m saving it for the next book), and sent it […]
Writing a Series
As most of you know, the last few weeks I’ve been researching series writing as a way to get my head around not only my next book (no. 2 in a series), but also the next however many I get to write with this world and characters. As a reader I hate the series that […]
Promotion Tricks I Learned From DragonCon
Monkey see, monkey do. Or, more accurately, when a human sees someone failing, the human tries something different. The human sees someone succeeding, then he/she does exactly the same thing. Our ability to learn from the examples of others can get us in trouble sometimes, as we all stampede towards a particular stock or children’s […]
A Big Sigh of Relief
For those who’ve been following the blog, I’ve been very quiet lately. This is for three reasons: one, I was heads down working on revisions for my new deadline, and two, this takes up a lot of time. I also had jury duty this month, which in my county is surprisingly involved, and I visited […]
