Ever since I got a call from Dad, asking if I was interested in a job, my life has been in a slight chaos. To be fair, it isn’t the day job. It is just that the rest of my family don’t seem to realise that I’m working part time and in my spare time, […]
I’m working on setting up The Wild Hunt in Scrivener to begin revising it . Sadly, the opening scene will need to be extensively rewritten, since it isn’t the opening scene anymore. Anyway, here is a snippet that I like. The wooden floor was cold and hard against her back. Pain and sorrow whirled […]
I think I have a bit better grip on working part-time and writing now. Which is a relief, since I signed up for Before You hit Send, which starts tomorrow. I’m so looking forward to it, I’ve wanted to take it for a long time but I lacked the money. I’ve decided to […]
I began a new job three weeks ago, and I’m struggling to find a balance. Before I begun this job, I had been unemployed for a long time. And while it was hard on the economy, it was glorious from a writing perspective. I could spend my days writing. Except now I suddenly can’t. On […]
I love all my stories, but there are some I’m especially fond of. The Demonlord’s Escape, the first book in the Heaven and Hell duology, is one of them. Maybe it is because the plot was slippery, and that I had to make two tries before getting it right. Maybe it is because of all […]
On a whim I decided to list the things I’ve done so far this year: Revised A Shadow of Love Edited Daughter of the Dark ( twice) Written Cauldron Bound Written Exile Begun writing The Alchemist’s Apprentice. Outlined Warder Outlined Cauldron Bound Outlined Exile Normally, this is what I get done in a year, maybe […]
Close to a year ago, I wrote a blog post about my top 3 female SF/F writers. With the recent hubub about the Waterstone list, I thought it might be a good idea to write a new list. Unlike last year when it was solely unknown authors, it is a mix of wellknown and less […]
This is another teaser from a deleted scene that didn’t quite fit the story. It is non-spoilery so I felt it was a good teaser. And if you have missed my previous teasers, I’ve posted a link to them on my brand new extras page. The haggling stopped when I walked past. They glanced at […]
When I wrote the first draft of Queen of Sind, I wrote it on the fly. I had a lot of fun writing it, but I did very little worldbuilding. It was purely laziness. But this week I’m diving into the research hole that is the Ancient Near East, or more specifically Persia. Why Persia? […]
Right now my life can be summed up with one word: Waiting. I’m waiting for the editor at Carina Press who requested it last week to say yes or no on Daughter of the Dark. ( I’m still squeeing over that. No matter how it goes, I’m extremely proud over the fact that one of […]