Fantasy Author and Very Serious Person
It's that time of year! What, ant season? No, it's - Oh yeah, hurricane season. Thanks for the reminder, I need to restock my - No, I meant - Oh! I remember now. Monsoon season. But that doesn't start for another two weeks. I mean, yes, all of those, but it's also PRIDE MONTH. The… Continue reading Pride Month Pre-Order Extravaganza
Recently, I shared five tips to help you survive your debut year (I mean, they helped me, so). It was pretty touchy-feely, because, well, have you met me? But I know how much people need something concrete when they're lost at sea and flailing about for anything solid, anything at all. So I thought a… Continue reading 8 Practical Tips for the Debut Author
This is just a quick post to let y'all know I'll be at the Nebula Conference in L.A. next week - from May 16th through the 19th. Feel free to say hi if you see me, and/or do as I do and stand at an awkward distance and pretend to commune with the nearby fake… Continue reading 2019 Nebula Conference
It's been over five weeks since my debut novel The Perfect Assassin came out into the world and I've been spending most of that time decompressing. Relaxing. Reading. Sleeping (!), even, when the Toddler allows. But me being me, I've also been thinking about the past year - and beyond. It's been a bit of… Continue reading 5 Tips for Surviving Your Debut Year
It's been a Quiet on the Outside, Busy on the Inside kind of month. I've been burning the candle at both ends to get copy edits for book 2 done and in and just shy of perfect. Funny thing: when the book you're fixin' was written five years ago, there tends to be a bit… Continue reading All Quiet
The Perfect Assassin is out in the world!! You should be able to find it anywhere books are sold. Also libraries!! In fact, people've been sending me photos of it in the wild, face-out, at Barnes and Nobles and their local indies, and honestly, that's been so, so cool. People have been asking me how… Continue reading It’s here!!
How did we go from two and a half years to less than a week?? Oh right, the passage of time. Well aside from flailing, I haven't much to say. But I've got a lot of links! First off, if you want to learn about dunes - or some of my research behind the Perfect… Continue reading Less Than a Week
It sure has been a month. I don't even know how to begin, so let's just run through it, shall we? I started a new job. Winter finally showed up. I moderated my first panel and gave my first reading at ConFusion in Detroit. I wrote a bit more of my WIP. The cover for… Continue reading January Recap (Madcap?)
The next few months are going to be a whirlwind - and not just because I have a book coming out (in 74 days [not that I'm counting {okay yes I'm counting}]). New job, ConFusion, new WIP, edits for book 3, (presumably) copy edits for book 2, cheering on my fellow 2019 debuts, trying (somehow)… Continue reading Promises
Today is the Solstice, the longest night of the year and the turning point. No longer will the days continue to shorten; we only have light to look forward to. It's the perfect time to breathe deep, feel the chill, and look back at the year. And this has been a year. It feels like a… Continue reading Looking Back, Leaning Forward
