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Shameless Self-Promotion and the Wonderful World of Branding

As promised (or would that  be “threatened”?) I’m doing another promotional post today, to mark tomorrow’s release of the third and final book in my Blood of the Southlands trilogy.  The book is called The Dark-Eyes’ War, and it is, at least for now, the final installment in the long-running epic fantasy story arc that [...]

Promotion Time and Publishing Wars

This week I’m taking a short break from the “Writing Your Book” series to post about something else.  Originally, this was going to be a simple self-promotion post.  I have a book coming out this week — the mass market paperback release of The Horsemen’s Gambit, book II in my Blood of the Southlands trilogy. [...]

More On Shameless Self-Promotion

Let me start by saying that I actually suck at self-promotion.  I do a bit of it, and I know a fair amount about what I ought to be doing, so I can speak with some authority about it at conventions and such.  I have my blogs (including this one and SFNovelists, of which I’m [...]

Revising and Self-Editing

We here at Magical Words have posted before about revisions and our editors’ revision letters.  I’m going to write about it again today, not only because I’ve been casting about for a topic for today’s post, and not only because I happen to be in the middle of revisions, but also because it’s nearly impossible [...]

“What’s Next?”

In finished my work in progress last week.  For those of you who have been following its progress from the start, this was the Shiny New Toy I was so excited to write as I was finishing up the last book of my Blood of the Southlands trilogy.  It’s the first of what I hope [...]

The Imperfect Mirror

We have a friend in Australia, a colleague of Nancy’s who studies biology and is particularly interested in the metabolism of birds.  He and his wife are great people — we think the world of them.  But I bring him up today because I was thinking about a conversation we had with them over wine [...]