No Clothes

Those of you who follow the publishing gossip will by now have heard about Harlequin Horizons. For those of you who haven’t been following, here’s the long and short: Harlequin has decided to expand into pay-to-play publishing.
Needless to say, this hasn’t gone over well at all. Apparently the folks over at Harlequin are “very surprised [...]

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Interview

Hey, y’all! Lorna Suzuki was good enough to interview me about my writing process and all that good stuff. If you’re interested, you can find the interview here!

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What I Learned on my Autumn Vacation

So, 25 days early, here I am, sitting down at the ole’ compy with a cup of tea and Janis Joplin (Pearl) on the Wi-fi Hi-fi. I’m feeling slightly sheepish about coming back so early, but mostly relieved. I need blogging like I need bad black tea. Not like, I’ll die without it, but I [...]

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Just Heard

Back from very enjoyable dinner with Steve and Shannon. Saw the bat coming back to his little place up above the balcony (I thought he would be going out this time of night) and settled down to do the last email check of the day. Just heard that edits for Field Guide are to start [...]

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The Outer Alliance. An alliance of queer, questioning and allied authors. Sounds pretty awesome.

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On the Agenda

Today I am at home. I’ve got the edits for Bamboo in my lap right now. The editorial suggestions are really very limited, which might sound like a good thing but actually drives me batty. I like detailed criticisms and because I feel like if I’m not being challenged I’m probably not giving my best. [...]

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Work

Work has started on Bamboo, my samurai steam punk novel. Hopefully this round of edits will be done near the end of the month and the book will hit shelves in autumn. Fingers are crossed, anyway.

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Editing, Rewarmed

I got an email last week from an editor that said something to the effect of, “Edits should be coming your way on the tenth. Brace yourself, madam.”
Any time an email from an editor contains a qualifier, I’m suspicious. I’m not sure if it works the same way with big presses, but in all my [...]

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How Odd

Got my royalties from Prizm yesterday, but the royalties for books sold through Amazon are missing. How odd. Of course, I don’t really know when they should appear, so I sent a few emails. I’ll post further bulletins as events warrant. Mean time, I’m off to play mah jongg. That’s right, I’m skipping karate.

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On Plagiarism

I’m sorry I missed the opportunity to post about plagiarism on Anti Plagiarism day, which took place, according to Writer Beware and numerous other sources, yesterday, while I was busy reading the Good Housekeeping Cookbook, circa 1940.
I scrambled to catch up with what the rest of the writing world all ready new, read some classic [...]

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