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Category: fiction
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Pixie Snippet #8
The continuing adventures of a bounty-hunter pixie and his reluctant fairy princess. If you missed the first parts, look here for the links to them. Enjoy! ############ Bella hit a curve at a wild speed and I clutched tighter at her middle. With all the layers in the way, I couldn’t tell if I had…
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Pixie Noir Snippet #7
If you have not been following along, the first snippets are here, and I have the edited manuscript back from my editor, one giant step toward completion. The cover artist has sent me some sketches, and I have re-iterated my desire for art that is gritty, sexy, and noir-ish. Not looking for a scene from…
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Industry Reading
I have too much homework to think too much. Now, isn’t that a conundrum? Anyway, I decided I would spare you my analysis of John Donne’s The Flea, although if you have never read it, you should. It’s really funny. But I will let you analyze it yourself. Just let me suggest that you ponder…
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Breaking the Rules
I’m a bit of an iconoclast, if you read my blog you will have noticed that already. Indie author, on the cusp of that being acceptable (although I predict it will become the norm), not one to go along with teh litewawy dahlings, preferring to read for story, not message…. My First Reader sent me…
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Pixie Snippet #6
If you have not been reading along, the first snippets can be found here. ############# “What are we going to do about the troll’s body?” I asked her. “Raven will take care of it.” She pointed and I saw that he was still in giant bird, form, and pecking at the troll. There were a…
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How to Write Realist YA: Part 1
I am joined today by a guest blogger, a friend who was good enough to allow me to publish some of his musings on Young Adult Lit, and what the deep problems are in the genre, and why. He has asked me to withhold his name as he is concerned, perhaps rightly, about backlash from his views…
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YA Blog Hop
What are you working on right now? I am working on a couple of projects. One is a short story about a young man, and his new puppy… on a spaceship traveling between planets. Housebreaking, er, ship training? has a whole new set of challenges for my resourceful hero. The other is the sequel to…
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The Library and Research
I spent my morning class in the library today, listening to an overview of how to use academic databases to do research. I’ve been doing that for a while, but you never know what neat new tip or trick you migth pick up, and besides, I didn’t really have a choice. Now, you, my writerly…
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International Book Week
There’s a little meme that pops up on Facebook every so often. I have no idea if it really is International Book Week, but I thought it would be fun to grab some of the oddball books floating around the office and leave some random sentences here on the blog. What I am doing differently,…
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The Power of Free
Cross-posted from Amazing Stories Magazine Harnessing the power of free has nothing to do with that scene in Braveheart where William Wallace hollers “Freedom!” although I will admit I get a shiver down my spine when I hear it (movie has issues, but I still like it…). What it does have to do with is…
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Young Science Fiction
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I’m working on a short story today, about a boy and his dog… and the boy’s spaceship. Then Dave Freer posted this: Zamzummims, where he laments the loss of Science Fiction Giants in the world of the young. We need writers who can give our children wonder, adventure, and a solid science in their fiction.…
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Review: Riders of the Winds
I was asked to review a novel about the history of aviation, and I agreed because I spent a lot of my younger years in the Civil Air Patrol, and obsessed with planes… As you will see, I think I would only recommend this book if you are very interested in Av history, about which…