Guest blogging
I’m guest blogging today: http://www.koolqueerlit.com/Come read an excerpt from Good Bones!
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Good Bones
I am really thrilled to announce that my new novel, Good Bones, will be available on April 20. It will be available in print and ebook formats, directly through the publisher or through Amazon. It has a gorgeous cover by Christine Griffin. Skinny, quiet hipster Dylan Warner was the kind of guy other men barely …
Productivity
Today’s blog subject is productivity–mainly because I’ve had very little of it for the past few days! I’ve always been a fast writer. I wrote my first textbook in one semester, a pace that was assisted by my knowledge that I was due to have my second child at the end of that semester. There’s …
Research
Today I’m going to share with you one of my deep, dark secrets: I really love doing background research for my fiction. Once an academic geek, always an academic geek, I guess. And fiction gives me the excuse to research all sorts of topics that have nothing whatsoever to do with my academic specialty but …
Creativity
So I’m back from New York City and working away. Last night I finished the first draft of my newest novel, tentatively titled Brute. It’s another darkish fantasy, so if you enjoyed the Praesidium books I think you’ll like this one. Now it’s time for editing, which is a process I’ve grown to enjoy. I …
Guest blog
Today I’m guest blogging at Guys Like Romance, Too: http://www.guyslikeromancetoo.blogspot.com/ Come read about how Ennek and Miner came to be, and read an excerpt from Equipoise.
I’m in New York City for a few days on non-authorly business. I managed to write a couple thousand words on the newest novel during the plane ride. And here’s Equipoise over Times Square:
My eyes are bigger than my stomach
The other day my wonderful, supportive husband gave me a lecture on over-extending myself. This may have had something to do with the fact that I currently have four books (two novels and two textbooks) in various stages of writing and editing. Or maybe it was because I had just announced to him that I …
This weekend I’m grading exams. Far, far too many exams. It’s a difficult enough exercise to begin with, especially because I’d much rather be working on my latest novel (I’m 24,000 words in). But then I get unintelligible handwriting, inability to follow simple directions, atrocious mangling of the English language, and flagrant disregard for reality. …