Apparently January will be the Month of Rereading My Own Books. I got email from my editorial assistant yesterday saying he’d noticed they didn’t have an art fact sheet for HOUSE OF CARDS, the second book of the Old Races Negotiator(?) series yet, and could I fill one out by today. (And, bless him, he said I could fill it out in a word document instead of through the system that I dislike. Yay!) So, y’know, no problem. But I haven’t read that book since September, and doing an AFS…
Year: 2007
emg-zine
Hey, I see my lil’ article about editing manuscripts has gone up on EMG-Zine. Go forth, read, and remind me to finish my creating comics essays for her. :)
writer nattering
This is half to hear myself thinking, and half to talk about process, so … I think it was Jane Yolen who said she liked writing for kids because you didn’t have to dumb anything down. Whoever it was, I find it funny that ANGLES is by far the most structurally complicated book I’ve ever written. I have five protagonists who begin the story together, who are split up into smaller and smaller groups until everyone has their own individual story arc, then who all come back together, split again,…
o.o
ted just made me spit water all over the floor! i had a cough in my throat and he handed me his full glass of water, saying, “would you like some water?” and i was thirsty so i drank it all or almost all i KNEW i shouldn’t look at him before i was finished but i did and he was making I Maked You A Cookie eyes. and i spat water all over everything. o.o then he didn’t want his water anymore. o.o
currently working on…
For this, the first day of 2007, I’m going to read RIGHT ANGLES TO FAERYLAND, my YA fantasy novel that’s been languishing for the last two years while I’ve been…doing other things. My January goal is to revise it and get it sent in to to see what she thinks. January 2007 WiP: Writing: TRUTHSEEKER proposal, Chance 5 & 6 Revising: RIGHT ANGLES TO FAERYLAND Submitting: — Publishing: — Waiting: Chance submission, Walker Papers 4-6 submission