Fantasy Author and Very Serious Person
First off, happy belated Winter Solstice! The shortest day is past and it only gets brighter from here*. Growing up in Florida, the winter solstice held little significance to me -- winter days are bright and sunny, so why did I need to celebrate the light's return? If anything, I celebrated the summer solstice with… Continue reading 2022
A well-meaning question that's just as hard to answer. Sometimes I can truthfully answer -- after a few solid 5am writing sessions -- "good." Lately... it's more complicated. "It's going," suffices for both of us, and is equally true. But what I really want to say, and what no one has the time for, is… Continue reading “How’s the writing going?”
It's been pretty quiet on here, huh. Probably because it's been pretty quiet outside of here, too. I've been kind of drifting for a bit, occasionally dipping my toes back in to see how the water feels, if this is where I want to jump in and dive deep and see just how long I… Continue reading The State of the Doore
The decade ends in a little less than two weeks, an arbitrary endpoint to an extraordinary time. I went from being afraid I would never figure out what I Wanted To Be When I Grew Up (TM) to being exactly where I've always wanted to be - with sufficient wiggle room for growth. It was,… Continue reading A Decade & A 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
It is November 28th. There are three days remaining in November, which means three days remaining in National Novel Writing Month, that time of year when thousands - hundreds of thousands - of writers try to plunk down 50,000 words in the span of a single month. In years past, I have diligently hit the… Continue reading On NaNoWriMo and Failure, Or: How I’m Learning to Embrace My New Writing Process
I just finished a six week hiatus from Twitter. Or at least an attempted hiatus. To be honest, I dipped my toe in a few times with the excuse of checking DM's only to get swept up into reading a few tweets before realizing what I was doing. But my slip-ups only reaffirmed my need… Continue reading Hello Twitter, My Old Friend
#TFOB, my #TFOB, how I love thee so. When we moved to Tucson, the Festival of Books was still in its toddlerhood. We went during its 3rd year and it was already huge and drawing in ginormous crowds and interesting/well-known/actual authors. I wandered between tables of books and lecture halls of guest speakers under a… Continue reading 10 Years of The Tucson Festival of Books
If you ask any writer (or artist [or human being]), they'll say that 2017 was a rough year. Full of distractions and worry and dread. Yet despite all of that, we kept on keeping on. I'm not exception - while I wasted countless hours on what-ifs and not sleeping, the work still had to be… Continue reading Goodbye 2017, Hello 2018
Autumnal! Quite a maelstrom of change has swept through the Doore household since I last updated. I announced that I was pregnant, mentioned we were moving to Michigan, waxed poetic about the Sonoran desert and then - disappeared. You can probably guess what has happened in the meantime. Now we're settled in Michigan and have… Continue reading Updates and Sundry
K. A. Doore 