Cedar Writes

Category: fiction

  • Trickster Noir: Snippet 8

    Trickster Noir: Snippet 8

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    My search for a little car to replace the one I was rearended in continues. This weekend it is eating my life. Another snippet closer to publication date! I still have a lot of work to do, the beta reports are largely in, and after the car thing is handled, I can focus on making…

  • Stilted Writing

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    I’m reading a couple of novels written by new writers. I’m finding they share something that I have noticed before in debut efforts. I am trying to figure out how to express coherently what the impression they gave me was. My First Reader suggests that perhaps it boils down to ‘spending to much time on…

  • Trickster Noir: Snippet 7

    Trickster Noir: Snippet 7

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    Returning you to your regularly scheduled Sunday Snippets, here is another section of the novel. Thank you to all of you who popped over and bought a copy of The Eternity Symbiote, and I hope that reviews will be kind when they appear in time! I have gotten a few beta reports back on Trickster,…

  • Snippet: The Eternity Symbiote

    Snippet: The Eternity Symbiote

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    Trickster Noir snippets will return next week, but to celebrate the publication of The Eternity Symbiote, here is the last snippet (as promised!) from that book, and links for purchase. You can find earlier snippets here, here, and here, in descending order of chronology. Happy Reading! In all other e-formats, click here. ************** To hide…

  • Space Opera Snip the third

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    Third snip of the space opera novella. I think one more, next week sometime, and then I will publish. Which means I have to get moving on the cover! This morning, however, math. I keep thinking I’m going to get a handle on it and it will stop taking like umpteen hours of homework for…

  • Trickster Noir – Snippet 6

    Trickster Noir – Snippet 6

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    So last week the beta readers got their copies of Trickster Noir, and now I wait anxiously the feedback they will deliver… I expect to have it all by the end of February, and then the editing begins. After my editing, the Editor gets the book for final edits, which will be March-ish. By April,…

  • Titling, Snippets, and Other Pains

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    I mentioned before, I think, that I never intended to write fantasy. I wanted to be a science fiction author. Space opera, Mil SF, maybe some Hard SF (although I’m too much in love with characters and story to do much of that). I began, a long time ago, to write my first novel in…

  • Trickster Noir

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    Here’s the snippet round-up for Trickster Noir The second in the “Pixie for Hire” series, following the events of Pixie Noir, Trickster is split between Lom’s point of view as he slowly recovers from the mental and physical injuries he suffered from at the close of PN, and Bella’s, as she adjusts to her new…

  • Trickster Noir: Snippet 4

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    Another week, another snippet! I really need to get this book out to beta readers, but this has been the week of school adjustments, so I am behind. As always, this is a raw, rough draft! Feel free to point out errors in the comments, but do keep in mind it has a couple layers…

  • That Which Befalls People

    That Which Befalls People

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    I wrote about Bad Science over at Mad Genius Club, if you’re interested in researching and writing good hard science fiction you may want to wander over there. Here, I’m going to be brief. I’m studying Epidemiology this semester, or the study of that which befalls people. And really, as an author, I do that…

  • Fantasy is Tough

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    I don’t like fantasy. You heard me. I grew up reading Tolkein, CS Lewis, Madeline L’Engle, and loving them. I remember absorbing the Pern books all out of order and visiting different libraries to try and track them down (yes, I know technically Pern isn’t magic, bear with me). I read all fourteen Oz books…

  • The End is Near

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    I’m so close to the end of the book, now… I just glanced down and I can see the word count below the edge of the browser. 27,784 words… Wait, you’re saying, I thought you were writing a novel? Surely it’s longer than that. Yeah, it is. What I did with Pixie Noir, and I…