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Tell, Don’t Show – another link to an old post
Another entry in the category of Stuff I Should Have Linked To When it Was New, but at least this time it’s only from June of this year, not 2005. This is from my boyfriend Donald’s blog, an interesting critique … Continue reading
How much money do writers make?
This is so old that it’s almost embarrassing to post it! But I didn’t have a blog back in 2005. Author Tobias Buckell collected and analyzed a bunch of data (from a survey he took of published authors), to determine … Continue reading
Which famous writer do YOU sound like?
Someone on one of the mailing lists I’m on sent this around. You enter some text in the box, and it’s supposed to analyze your writing style and tell you which famous author writes like you. I wouldn’t put much … Continue reading
Top 10 Habits of Highly Irritating Editors
There’s a lot of material on the internet about how not to be a deadbeat writer. Much of it is posted by fiction editors, often in exasperation after the latest badly-formatted 30,000-word story about zombie mangosteens, submitted in response to … Continue reading
“Looking-Glass Milk” now available online for free
My story “Looking-Glass Milk” is now available to read online at Scribblers and Ink Spillers, as part of their Crystal Codices series. They initially published this story back in November, charging $1 for a downloadable e-book and $2 plus shipping … Continue reading
Writing retreat
My boyfriend and I are off to New Hampshire this weekend for a writing retreat. Just the two of us! It will be a very small writing retreat. I expect to get lots of work done. After all, what distractions … Continue reading
Real life is harder than Clarion West
Two summers ago, I was fortunate enough to attend the Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle. This is a 6-week program where 18 science fiction and fantasy writers, usually pretty early in their careers, live together in a sorority house … Continue reading