I finished the first draft of Cauldron Born today. It isn’t perfect, but I’m proud of it. Cauldron Born was originally written for an anthology, as a historical fantasy short story featuring undead. Except as I finished the first draft of that story, I knew I had left a lot of the story untold. So […]
Right now, I’m editing Daughter of the Dark, before I send it to a friend who has promised to crit it. ( Actually, I sent her an earlier version, but this one is much better.) Moira Rogers wrote a blogpost about quiet success recently, and after I read it I started to think about what […]
You know you are a bookaholic when…. … You cheer over the fact that you got an e-reader since it is much easier to pack for vacations, but you still pack 5 massmarkets to read on the plane and at the beach. …. You think a TBR pile that only contains 15 book is managable. […]
Reading about the success of 50 Shades Of Grey made think about what makes a book wildly popular. I have read a lot of books, that have had engaging characters, fast paced plots, and fascinating settings. Yet they aren’t up and fighting on the bestseller lists. So why is they plodding along? I think part […]