Just a quick reminder to anyone in the Appleton area of Wisconsin (or its surrounding territories, which are heavily populated by fierce Vikings and cold weather dragons), I’ll be at Conkey’s bookstore this Saturday from 1 -3. … [Read more...]

Just a quick post: my good friend Peter has officially launched his new online magazine, Shadows of Saturn.  The fiction is fabulous, as is the design.  It’s also a paying market, for you writers out there. ----- … [Read more...]

I survived!  Thanks to everyone for your kind words of support.  It was actually a lot of fun, and I did sell some books.  Mostly, though, it was a chance to talk with the booksellers—who were remarkably kind and supportive—and to have some nice … [Read more...]

Tomorrow is my first book signing.  I’m a little nervous.  Not because I may have to meet people, but because I suspect I won’t meet many at all, and I’ll just be sitting there twiddling my thumbs for two hours trying to look cheerful and busy instead … [Read more...]

Okay, so you know that book offer I mentioned the other day?  The one I was holding off talking about because everything hadn’t been finalized?  Well, it’s more or less listed on Amazon.com now, so I guess the cat is out of the bag.  Yes, I am writing … [Read more...]

So. I’m writing this book and it’s rough.  Thought I would take a break, and what do I find?  Another writer who is apparently going through the same thing (but who describes it so much better than I ever could).  Thank you, Rachel Caine.  I, too, … [Read more...]

Happy Easter, everyone.  I hope your day was spent in loveliness and joy. … [Read more...]

Finally got word on the book proposal I submitted some time back.  The publisher liked it and has made an offer!  I can’t say much more than that (I haven’t received the contract yet), but those who know me are going to have kittens (meow!) when they find … [Read more...]

Just found out that Tiger Eye is already in its second printing.  Yeee-haw!  Still hard at work on the sequel - I’m currently writing a dream sequence, which seems to be a theme of mine.  Probably because I have such strange dreams.  Lucky, meanwhile, … [Read more...]

Novelist Poppy Z. Brite has an interesting response to that old writing advice of “vomit-it-on-the-page-and-fix-it-later.” I’ve excerpted some of it: The thing is, I’m not willing to write badly. I certainly don’t mean that I never have, but … [Read more...]