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 »
Warning: Contains mostly minor spoilers. If you haven’t watched at least to the first few episodes of the season of Orphan Black, stop reading now, go to Amazon Instant, and buy them. Done? Great, now can keep reading. I love to rant about crap on the Internet. Here’s how this thing I loved fucked up.
Why Every Storyteller Should Be Watching Orphan Black Read More »
So I’ve been wanting to address the entrance of dudes into My Little Pony (MLP) fandom for awhile now. I’m a fan of lots more fans in a fandom, especially a traditionally female one. It’s awesome to see guys excited about a show that’s about friendship and magic. The more the merrier. Yet, like any
Ponies for Everyone: Scrubbing Women from My Little Pony Fandom Read More »
It’s perhaps not a huge secret that the last couple of years have been rough for me on the writing front. Writing careers are sticky things. They move slowly. Ever….so… slowly. For an impatient Twitter addict like me, the slow crawl of writing a book – let alone publishing one – can be agonizing, and
The Writing Life Readers Don’t See Read More »
If you say you want to be a writer, people will tell you to write. That’s sound advice. Writers write shit. But what a lot of folks fail to mention is that there are plenty of people writing hundreds of thousands of words a year who just keep writing the same shitty words, the same
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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,
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Which is why things have been so quiet here. I was gunning to be done with the huge revised monster and sending it off to my agent before heading out for my trip this week, but that hasn’t happened. All I can say to everybody is, I think the wait will be worth it. Until
Yes, I’m Writing a Book… Read More »
UPDATE: Due to the overwhelming response, I’m not longer accepting applications while I sort through emails. Thank you! I’ve been putting off my growing need for an assistant for a long time, mainly due to money issues, but with more freelancing work coming in and a desperate desire to finish this next book so ya’ll will actually
Writer Seeking Assistant (Can Work Remotely. Must Love Epic Fantasy) 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 »