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 […]
This is a little something that I began writing a couple of weeks ago. I decided that since it had snowed in so many odd places, it might be fun to make it snow in Hell. This is only the beginning, since the rest of the scene turned into spoiler territory and started to feel […]
I love this song, but I have some bittersweet feelings for it. It was 2009, when Spotify had just launched. I found all his albums there, and suddenly an idea I had exploded. It was such an cool idea, about a man who accidentially unleased a demon, and the woman who found his cottage centuries […]
I have muttered on Twitter and in the war room about a phone call that isn’t coming. Since I did get the phone call, I feel I can shout to the world that I have a job. A part-time one, doing stuff I’ve done before. Everyone says it is important for research, which it is […]
I don’t often write about music, and how some songs affect me when it comes to various aspect of writing. But I have been thinking about it, and decided that I wanted to blog about it. I love this song. Not just because Salem al Fakir is a great artist,but most of all I love […]
The rewrite of A Shadow of Love is moving along smoothly. At the moment, I’ve rewritten the first third of the draft, and it is much better. What is making me continue rewriting at a rather brisk pace ( 5-9 pages per day) is that I’m reminded of how much I love this story. Like […]
I know. In my previous writing update post I said it would be a novella. Well. I was wrong. I had written 3000 words when I realised I had forgotten one important difference between the outline for Cauldron Bound ( the novella) and Exile ( the Short story), namely that the middle of Cauldron Bound […]
I finished Cauldron Bound on Friday, and then had a CSI Miami marathon the whole weekend. This morning, I sat down to outline the prequel story I want to write before I get Daughter of the Dark back from the Editor, sometime in February. ( I’m sending it to her Feb 4, and I suspect […]
Right now, I’m working on Cauldron Born ( or Bound). And yesterday, I reached the part of the draft that is an eternal slog. The inner critic whispers ” This is crap. Shouldn’t you focus on the unfinished YA Fantasy instead?”, while I would like to finish it, I know that I need to finish […]