I’ll be in stealth mode throughout April this year. I’ve got edits due on THE MIRROR EMPIRE and a writing retreat later in the month exclusively dedicated to burning through pages on book 2, and the last thing I need to be doing when completing loads of work is chatting with other humans, even and […]
I’ll Sleep When It’s May: Stop. Drop. And Write. Read More »
I’ve never been keen on listing eligible works, especially when I don’t have many, but I keep fielding questions about this on Twitter, so here’s a post I can point ya’ll to instead of endlessly rehashing. Ok? Ready. Set. Go. BEST NOVEL (all) RAPTURE, my last book, came out in 2012, so isn’t eligible for any
Awards Eligibility and Recommendations Read More »
I hadn’t been to Europe in over ten years, so I was about due. Trips of this length have their drawbacks – costs being one, and exhaustion over the sheer logistics to get there being another. I’m pretty introverted, so navigating the astonishing mob of people en route to other places can be a nightmare.
Surviving an Extroverted World, Pondering the Soft Apocalypse Read More »
When I was a younger writer, I was obsessed with figuring out whether or not I was “good.” At most writing workshops I went to, from 14 onward, I was always the best or, at least, most experienced writer in the bunch. I’d been writing fiction and studying fiction since I was 12 and sending
Why Being “Good” Isn’t Good Enough Read More »
I did my first radio interview this weekend (it won’t go live for three weeks. Patience, grasshopper). I’ve done a podcast before, but radio was new, and I was pretty excited. So I asked ahead of time for the questions so I could prepare some responses. Which, you know, you should always do. What invariably
Magic. Mystery. Polyamory: How to Talk About Your Next Book Read More »
When you’re told that all of your friends are out riding Falcor the Luck Dragon to Disneyworld, where they will stay in Cinderella’s Castle and eat bon-bons all day while getting escorted to the front of every line via air-conditioned pumpkin carriage, it’s really, really hard not to go with them, even though you know Florida is
Why I’m Not Writing YA (though I often wish I was) Read More »
I’m down to the last six chapters on The Beast. This may be one of those “stay up until 5am just to finish the fucking thing” days. My partner says he’ll buy me 30 days of World of Warcraft the minute I finish, even if it’s 5am, so there’s a motivator, too. As are my
Six Chapters Til Brooklyn Read More »
I’ve been spending a great deal of time working on my latest project, a fantasy epic that’s already weighing in at 160K. For reference, God’s War was about 98K. So this is a bear of a book for me. I’ve been very lucky in that I’ve picked up enough freelance work to hire an assistant,
What’s Happening in the Land of the Lost Read More »
I taught a copywriting class last November, which isn’t something you’d generally ever see me doing. Classrooms aren’t for me. Public appearances are exhausting, and teaching a class is one long song-and-dance routine. You have to prep for it. Then, afterward, you’re exhausted and need to recoup for a week and then do it all
Unpacking the “Real Writers Have Talent” Myth Read More »
As the news has now broken, I wanted to share some postmortem thoughts on the Skyhorse/Night Shade deal which has now gone through. For those wondering if I took the deal: Throughout the last couple of months, a lot of information has been gathered about Skyhorse and Start, it’s epublishing arm for the new imprint.
Welcome to Skyhorse’s New Night Shade Imprint Read More »