I got rear-ended this morning. The car seems fine and I seem fine (other than a metric asston of adrenaline coursing through my system), but, wow. That’s my first accident in the Miata. One of my recent accidents was with a motorcycle, but thankfully the guy was OK, I didn’t get hurt, the guys bike […]

Another Full Lake today (yay!). But, you know how you do that thing, where you have a big scene coming up, and your day’s work starts with finishing off the last scene, and then there has to be a transition to get to the big scene, and you also have to check in with another

I crossed 50K on OUR LADY OF THE ISLANDS today, woo hoo! Which involved writing a Full Lake today (2,500 words). I have one more major-ish scene before reaching the end of the first act, according to the outline. So, another 5 or 10K? Not sure–it hasn’t entirely taken shape in my head yet. But

Back in San Francisco. Cold: yep. Foggy: yep. ‘Nuff said. _____________ Immediately after my reading on Saturday, while I was still in the throes of adrenalin and gratitude at being finished, two nice people from Seattle Geekly interviewed me for their podcast. I hope I was reasonably coherent, though no promises. I’ll put up the

So, yeah, as he said, I had my first reading yesterday, and it went fine. Okay, I was nervous, but everyone was very nice to me, and I survived. I could even see wanting to do it again some day. It’s been rather a blur of activity. I flew up to Portland Friday, was met

I’ve been both busy and sort of low energy the last few days, so didn’t post yesterday and only wrote 1,000 words on OUR LADY…but now I am feeling better and starting to get excited about leaving tomorrow for THIS! _______________ Tonight is Zombie Club, and we’re reading aloud (we’re sort of short on novels

This isn’t fully thought through. But, that’s fine, because it’s rather the point. Jay is a far more experienced (and published) writer than I am. When we first met, he soon became my mentor. He read my work and gave me feedback and my writing improved ENORMOUSLY as a result. I’ve learned so much from

So there was this morning’s sale. (Yay!!!) And as Jay mentioned, we cranked out another collab over the weekend. (He did most of the heavy lifting on that one, but my hand is in it, I promise.) And I have been working like crazy on OUR LADY OF THE ISLANDS–another 1,500 words today, to just

Sale! Received word this morning that “The Passion of Mother Vajpai,” a new collaborative story written with Jay Lake, sold to Subterranean Press for their TALES OF DARK FANTASY 2 anthology. Woo hoo!

I’m about to hit 40,000 words on OUR LADY OF THE ISLANDS, which is one-third of the goal. However, I am three full pages of outline away from the point labeled “end of act 1.” I’m inclined to not worry about it–things do tend to get rushy at the climax and ending of a book–but