Writing
Little Snippet of Dali’s Story (because I have no content)
I peered through the windshield of my ’93 Mustang. The Buzzard Highway stretched before me, a narrow line of crumbling pavement vanishing into dusk. Below it ran the Scratches, a twisted labyrinth of narrow ravines gouged out of the ground by magic three decades ago, when our world began to end. The old road skimmed [...]
Reading through the submissions
Oy. O_O This is why I don’t usually do workshops. We mostly end up critiquing other writers, who don’t want the cushioning of the critique, they just want the meat and potatoes of the problem. I’m afraid we might make people cry. I think we might have to do the card thing, to where we [...]
Y’all are too funny!
A hundred and fifty plus responses on the pretty boy vampire thing. ::Shakes head:: I had no idea so many people were starved of fiction where the pretty girl tells the gorgeous vampire to beat it. I am still so tired. Brain is working and producing ideas and scenes, but the actual sitting down and [...]
Pretty boy vampire
V. writes Will you ever write a traditional pretty boy vampire? Traditional as in Bram Stoker traditional, or Anne Rice traditional, or Stephanie Meyer traditional? Ehhh…. Fine, this once just for you. Since there is a boy in there, I suppose I have to go with a YA theme. A faint flutter brushed against the [...]
Aaa!
This morning: Me: Lalalala, I am going to write, lalalala…. Email from Publicist: Dear Ilona, we needz an excerpt for Bayou Moon, plz, thank you. Me: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Me: Header make-make-make, website fix-fix-fix, spaghetti cook-cook-cook, Oh look stupid people on TrueTV being stupid, website fix-fix-fix, excerpt upload. Gordon: Readers letter write-write-write Me: Reader letter upload. 6:32 [...]
Hello, hello
For a whole week I did nothing. I played World of Warcraft, went to the movies, overdosed on TV, pandered to my addiction to Warhammer Books and generally had fun. Tragically, all good things must come to an end and the vacation is over. Anne, the mighty editor, read MAGIC SLAYS and said that while [...]
