It is gloomy here in Texas. It doesn’t quite rise to the levels of blustery, but it is definitely grey, overcast, and slightly chilly. Mod R is out today for a medical procedure, so you have to put up with me prattling on about random business and life nonsense. First, I have some great news.
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What Do You Want?
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been getting random comments on different blog threads about what we might be writing next and what you want to read next. So we’re going to take the lid off this pressure cooker. Please feel free to tell us what you would like to read next from us in
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Sorting Things Out
The last couple of weeks have been both hectic and difficult. Finishing RUBY FEVER took priority, and even though we hit the word count goal, it will probably require additional scenes. Before you ask, the typical length of an adult romance is somewhere between 90-95K. It’s not a hard rule – some romances are longer,
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Audio Narrators
How are the audio narrators chosen? It’s a long and involved process. In self-publishing the writer chooses the narrator themselves. In the traditional publishing, the narrator is typically chosen by the publisher. It used to be that the choice was presented to the writer as a fact, but now the audio publishers even in traditional
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Was it Pretty?
This is your pick me up, in case you are struggling with writing or something else today. Number of times Gordon and I looked at the manuscript: 6. Number of professional editors who also looked at it: 4. Number of beta readers who looked at it: 6. Around them the forest breathed. Swarms of purple
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Bitter Disappointment
I’ve listened to the entire audiobook of Hail Mary by Andy Weir. It was a good book. It had a lot of science. I did not like the way it ended! Yeah, yeah, I get the set up for it and bitter sweet and all that, but I did not like it. I didn’t want
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Music, Covers, and Fainting Fans
State of House Andrews: the copyedits for the Fated Blades novella are finished. It came in at 45,000 words so double the typical novella length. I will post more once we have the cover. Blog prompts, here we go. Do you have a favourite meeting with a reader or reader interaction? Something that marked you
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Eh…
“Where did you get this?” Connor asked. “That’s not important,” Alessandro told him. Nevada leaned forward. “Bern, did you hack the MII servers?” Bern looked at her for a moment. Of course no Phone rings, local number so not spam. Our cells still have the Oregon area codes, so all spam comes from the West
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Writer work
For reasons I do not want to discuss I had to make this map. Behold. ::rolls eyes so far that she can see her hair grow::: I suppose I will have to make one for HL as well for reference.
Stories From the Writer Desk
Sometimes when writers are working, our minds enter this strange place where reality is a bit distorted. Me: Canadian High Society. Google: Canada High Society, a community of cannabis connoisseurs. Me, very tired and misreading: A community of cannibal connoisseurs? In Canada? They are so polite, why in the world would they allow cannibalism… Is
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Let’s Be Pedantic.
I hate to be a pedantic bore (no, actually I love it) but it is theoretically possible to set up life based on carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, but where liquid methane substitutes for water. M in the comments M’s survival instincts are misfiring. Let’s be pedantic. We haven’t told you anything except that there is
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Poorly Explain What You Do For a Living
Dedicated to Steph and benthic communities in the Arctic Your turn!
