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Who am I again?
I jut listened to "An Ode to Katan Amano" on Escape Pod, by Caitlin Kiernan. She is the author of many novels and a slew of short stories. Her first novel "Silk", is one of three books that influenced...
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Every Story Has a Home…
…but sometimes that home is at the bottom of your desk drawer. I got my second official rejection letter today, and it stung a lot more than the first. Logically, it shouldn’t have. My first letter...
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Never Give Up, Never Surrender
About a week ago Mr. Eliza asked me how the rewrite of my novel was going. I told him I was closing in on 15k, and he smiled knowingly. “You’ll know pretty soon, then,” he said. “I’ll know what?”...
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Day Number Two: The Impostor
The impostor syndrome. According to Wikipedia–the key source for all intellectual and reliable ideas–the impostor syndrome is a non-diagnosable psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to...
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Moving Forward by Going Back
Thank you, Mr. Chandler. I’m still deep in the rewrite stage of working on Toulouse, the YA novel I wrote last year during NaNoWriMo. It’s no secret to anyone who’s been reading this blog, or who has...
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Musing on Genre
Well, I finished the second draft/first rewrite of Toulouse. The next day I woke up with a bad headache, and I’ve felt like I’ve had kind of a hangover ever since. Maybe I’m sleeping poorly. Maybe I...
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Reaching the Scary Point Too Soon
I’ve written four novel length works (five if you count the from-scratch rewrite) in my life. Over the course of putting all those mad, mad words on paper I’ve made a few discoveries about myself. For...
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Throwing in the Towel on Blood Berries
The very first book I tried to write (barring the awesomesauce vampire collaboration I did with a friend in high school) was fantasy. Secondary world. Set in a vaguely Renaissance era time period. You...
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Writing My Query Letter and Trying Not to Freak Out
This past weekend has been dominated by the hair-raising, hair-ripping experience of writing my first query letter. That means the really hard editing/revising stuff is done, at least. (Though the book...
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… mysterious as a cat
Last weekend Mr. Eliza and I took our cats, Pumpkin and Pi, on a roadtrip down south to visit some long-neglected relatives. Aside from the car ride up to our house from the shelter we where we adopted...
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Emerald City Writer’s Conference and the courage to start over (and kittens)
Photo by Sean Dreilinger Wednesday of last week I got to work and noticed a pain in my throat. Every time I swallowed, it hurt, heralding the onslaught of a sickness that has been going around my...
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