David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

A J Hartley

What Time Devours

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

My MO

One quick note, Y’all. On Tuesday the 16th of February, we’ll have a guest blogger, Kim Harrison. Hope you’ll join us that day for a special post!

In the life of a writer, little is more boring or more necessary than the first rewrites. When I was writing mystery/thrillers, the first rewrite was between pages 100 [...]

Evolution of the Novel Part 3

For the past 3 weeks I’ve been posting on the evolution of voice and genre, as shown in the WIP, written (and still being rewritten) by Tiffany (Tiff), a writer I have been working with for 2 or 3 years. With Tiff’s permission, I told her story and how she found a narrator’s voice and [...]

The Evolution of the Novel, Part two

Last week, in part one, I discussed the evolution of voice in the work of one of my protégées, Tiff. With her permission, I told her story and how she found a narrator’s voice and a character’s voice that was uniquely hers. But as her story worked its way out on paper (computer files, I [...]

Evolution of The Novel, Prt 1

In keeping with the  “How to Write a (Fantasy) Book” premise that some of us, some of the time, are blogging on, this year, on MagicalWords.Net, I thought I’d revisit the First Page. I’ve blogged about this before, but not like this… (Yeah, I have a *new idea.* Scary, huh.)

As some of you know, I [...]

The Ideal Writer

Last week, Faith wrote a terrific post titled “The Ideal Editor,” in which she offered her thoughts on what writers ought to look for in an editor.  One of our readers commented that he’d like to see her follow up this week with a similar article about agents, and it remains to be seen whether [...]

back to back

This is not a post of much content.

For the first time I can remember, I’m pretty much writing two books in the same series back to back. This is mostly because I did two major revisions on the first book and don’t have time to go write something else before the second book is due.

It’s [...]