I’m getting impatient and almost added the book description to the Fantasy page. It is… not ready, to put it mildly. I did stick it at the top of the manuscript doc, though, so I have to look at it at least briefly every day upon opening and can noodle with it as inspidesperation[efn_note]in·spi·des·per·a·tion noun […]
Today I learned “complacent” doesn’t mean what I thought it meant, and though I’m going to blame it on near-universal misuse of the word when people actually mean “complaisant,” I’m painfully embarrassed about every time I’ve used it incorrectly. I knew “complaisant” was a word, but I can’t remember seeing it in… 30 years? And while
Somebody asked me a while ago why I’m not worried about revealing the whole story to potential readers by doing these posts. I just don’t think “they went to a location and performed an unspecified task” is all that spoilery? In fact, I think anyone who came in search of juicy clues would be peeved
The winter here was too mild for the bulbs, and the only iris that’s bothered to put in appearance is this little nihilist. With daylight and overhead lights and a little bit of flash, up close, you can tell she’s extremely dark purple, but under any other conditions, she reads as void black—which is all
Feeling really good without the voices of millions screaming for attention. Who knew? (I did, because I’m an old who didn’t even have internet in the house until I was 22 and alert enough to track the long-term trajectory. Let’s just say it’s not a coincidence Grave Oversight‘s villain is using it as a tool
The combination of escalated fuckery and my general dislike of social media have led me to finally cut the cord on the bird app. I’ve long known the endless barrage of bad news and increasing amounts of time cleaning up bigots, bots, and spammers in order to make the place remotely habitable aren’t beneficial to
78 rough draft pages have become 112 revised pages. Road Trip! (Day 1 of 2) This installment brings us a third of the way into the story. So far, Heroine has handled with relative ease (and insignificant injuries) everything thrown at her. We’ve demonstrated she can hold her own against a couple of types of
64 rough draft pages have become 89 revised pages. This installment reunites us with the age-old problem of knowing it’s only the second of many, many passes and therefore doesn’t have to be perfect, only better, but also getting upset because it’s not perfect. In the name of aggressive imperfection, I’m adding things I know
Picking up where left off before we were so rudely interrupted by writing a whole other book for no good reason. 54 rough draft pages have evolved into 68 revised pages. Since it’s been a while, I’ll remind everyone my first drafts have few complete sentences and almost no description, so I can easily add
Grave Oversight (Grave Oversight Book 1) has made its way to the major players in the retail sphere. Preorders don’t matter in my position, so you can get it today! Each and every book is chock full of: • Ghosts • For your soap opera needs, amnesia and an evil twin • A maybe-immortal swordsman