Song Styles
Curse my fickle writer brain! I've committed myself to my next novel project and am partway through my third book on the research for it. I am genuinely excited for everything it has to offer. The characters promise to be a lot of fun......
Wednesday Wanderings
She has arrived, and she is beautiful.I'm talking about my proof for Scylla and Charybdis - a lovely surprise, considering it wasn't due for another week. It's a big, meaty book, a doorstop, glossy and gorgeous. Watch this space for a cover......
Coming Soon …!
I now have a release date for Scylla and Charybdis, my space opera / soft science fiction novel from Grimbold Books: April 15th!
This is sadly *not* Tax Day this year, as would be somehow twistedly appropriate, but I'm very excited. Watch this space for more details, peeks...
Song Styles
For the second time, I'd like to do something a little different on a Sunday, discuss some new-to-me music that I thought others might like.I'll start with the most recent and high-profile album, Kelly Clarkson's Meaning Of Life. If you've turned......
Wednesday Wanderings
No blog post last week because of craziness at work: we were preparing for a VIP client dinner to be held in the shop. It went very well, but I didn't have much energy (physical or mental) for anything else. Was a full five days of wo......
Song Styles
There's one song I haven't formally put on my Surgeburnt soundtrack because it describes a romantic arc that I hadn't decided I was going to use ... and here I am, at least (I hope) three quarters of the way through the first draft, and I'm still ......
Song Styles
One of the side characters - and suspects - in my fantasy mystery, Unnatural Causes, is Eldais, former apprentice of Cailys (the victim), who was booted from his position after he attempted to lash out at the royal heir. Cailys chose not to turn ......
Wednesday Wanderings
So it's about that time again. Submissions for the Sword & Sorceress anthology typically open in mid-April, and a few months before, I always look through my backlog, pick two stories in that vein (S&S allows one submission, then a second......
Song Styles
This week, I heard a song on a television show I enjoy - The Blacklist, for the curious - that caught my attention. I had to seek it out. As soon as I heard the whole thing, I was hooked. It appeals to the wanderer instinct, the rhyth......
Wednesday Wanderings
A while back, I posted about how critiquing can be valuable for writers - not just the process of getting outside eyes on your work, but the act of reading critically, bringing your reactions together, and phrasing them in an effective manner. To......