For some bizarre reason, I agreed to attend a con this year – my first actual attendance (instead of a drive-by) as somebody who actually, you know, wrote some books. It’s been a long time since I’ve been social, so I’m looking forward to meeting and re-connecting with folks I haven’t seen in years. If you’d […]
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It’s no secret that the last year has been a rough one for me as far as getting back on the fitness train. I have a real hard time staying at my much-needed 90 minutes a day minimum workout time. It felt so daunting this year that just getting in 20 minutes on the bike
How I went from working out 20 minutes a day to 90-100 minutes a day (and liked it) Read More »
I’m not much of a year-end wrap-up person. A lot of shit went down in 2011. After a whole lot of years of writing, my first two books – GOD’S WAR and INFIDEL – were published. I blogged most weeks over at The Night Bazaar with some great debut authors. I settled into a great
Typing into 2012: What’s Happening This Year in the Writing Life Read More »
Writing is a lot of work. Oh, I always knew that, of course, but writing a book over 2, 3, 5 or 7 years stretches all that work out and makes it feel like a lot less. Or at least a lot less all at once. I was about halfway done with RAPTURE when I
“A writer is someone for whom writing is harder than it is for other people” Read More »
Today, I’ve got a guest post up over at The Ranting Dragon reviews site. Stories From Another Country When I was growing up, the holidays meant family gatherings over rich food slathered in buttery sauces and familiar stories of life during wartime in another country. My grandmother grew up in Nazi-occupied France, and met my
Stories From Another Country: Tales of wartime, immigration, and assimilation Read More »
For my first book, GOD’S WAR, I had two rounds of copy edits. One from my original publisher who ended up dropping the series right before it went to layout, and a second round from Night Shade. Both were sent to me in dead tree form. They were bulky, heavy things, but ultimately quite satisfying
It’s not the strongest who survive… it’s those most adaptable to change Read More »
When I first starting writing (yanno, back when I was twelve), I didn’t know much about writing point-of-view (POV), so everything was just omniscient, the way it seemed to be in most myths and fairytales and a good deal of older movies with narration attached. The narrator could just tell you what everyone was feeling,
Whose View? Unpacking POV Book by Bloody Book Read More »
In case you missed it yesterday, I’ve gotten official word that Night Shade Books will be publishing the third and final book of the Bel Dame Apocrypha, RAPTURE in late 2012. This is wonderfully great and rather surreal news. It also means I now have a book due March 1st (eeeeeyyyyaaaaah). My mom recently asked
RAPTURE: The End is Nigh! Read More »
I guess it shouldn’t be odd that such a high percentage of the people who buy books are people who want to be writers. After all, there must be a pretty big percentage of video game players who think it’d be a lot of fun to create video games. Loving an art form often means
Is Novel Writing Really Just a Pyramid Scheme? Read More »
Enter for a chance to win! (don’t worry – more chances for free books coming soon!) Goodreads Book Giveaway Infidel by Kameron Hurley Giveaway ends October 02, 2011. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win
Giving Away 5 Free Copies of INFIDEL at GoodReads! Read More »