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When last we saw our intrepid author, she was wading into the Slog, the great morass of storytelling, character development, and worldbuilding that stretched to the imaginative horizon, keeping her from her ambitions. Armed only with a keyboard, a thesaurus, and her wits, she strode forth, prepared to face down the horrors which, according to [...]
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    | 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 [...] In high school, the first poet I ever really got into was e. e. cummings. Now that I think of it, he may be the only poet I ever really gotten into. Part of the joy in his poetry is not the words, but the form they would take. He understood that the way something [...] 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. [...] Over the past two weeks we’ve discussed the preparatory stages of writing our novels. We began with the research, worldbuilding, character development, and, for those who choose to do so, plot outlines that we do at the outset. Last week we talked about establishing voice at different levels — Authorial, Genre, Book, Character. [...] This past week, Catie and I both began blog “series” in writing, and it seems that for this week and potentially down the road, there is going to be a fair amount of overlap between our posts. Catie and I might reinforce each other’s points. We might disagree. That’s okay. Getting more than one perspective [...] | This is a 2D-barcode containing the address of our Many companies provide barcode readers that you can install on your mobile, and all of the following are compatible with this format: | ||
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