dawtheminstrel

Excitement at the bridge table

dawtheminstrel Aug 11, 2016 18:54

My husband just sent me an excited text. He’s at a bridge tournament in Council Bluffs, and Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are there playing.

Book promotion is a pain

dawtheminstrel Aug 10, 2016 12:32

I'm drafting some blog posts to offer to book bloggers in the fall when DEEP AS A TOMB comes out. People do such "blog tours" these days because regular book tours are expensive. I'm having a hard time thinking of things to write about. I have 4 posts so far ( Read more... )

An entertaing read plus details for Tolkien fanficcers

dawtheminstrel Jun 15, 2016 10:13

I'm reading HOW TO BE A TUDOR by Ruth Goodman. She takes you from dawn to dusk, describing how people lived in that era. What were their beds like? How did they clean their teeth? How often did they change their underwear? It's fascinating stuff, but the most entertaining part is that Goodman does what I think is called Living History. That is, she ( Read more... )

Still revising

dawtheminstrel Apr 12, 2016 09:33

I'm working on my last set of revisions, getting ready to change the POV in two chapters from one character to another. You'd think that was easy because events will remain the same, but it's not, because now I have to operate from Myla's interior life instead of Beran's. She has different concerns. How do I show-not-tell them, assuming I can ( Read more... )

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