Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls: I have commenced book 3. With TUMB off to the first readers and my week free of all other distraction except for sudoku, Facebook, Google, e-mail, various fora, and the backlog of New Yorkers, I have begun. It ain’t much, but I’ll take it. I am half-outlining, half-writing. So this book’s process will be very different from the previous three! I am so excited to back in Aeritan. Note Read more…
This morning was the amazing sight of Venus hanging below the crescent moon as if it were a diamond on a very fancy necklace. I tried to get a picture but my settings were all wrong, and everything came out looking like two comets crashing into the planet, which was cool and all, but not exactly what was going on. I was also distracted by the fact that someone had smeared blood on my husband’s Read more…
It occurred to me I hadn’t done one of these in a while. Sorry about that. This installment is a simple one, but it came to mind because one of the students at the workshop was having difficulty with it. A poorly punctuated manuscript will be thrown out by an editor ASAP. No one will give you any leeway on this, so if you think you are shaky on your punctuation, make sure you know Read more…