I don't post to LJ very often anymore, but there are a few folks here who might find this amusing ( Read more... )

It has become something of a tradition in the fantasy genre to lavish great attention on the food characters eat. The plot might concern an epic battle against a world-destroying monster. The heroes might wield powers that move Heaven and Earth. And yet we’ll still get a detailed account of all the spices in the stew they’re currently eating.Once ( Read more... )

Cross-posted from my writing blog here, but it seemed like a pretty decent fit for my (itsy bitsy) audience here.

I got into a conversation this week about the Bechdel Test with some other writers. The Bechdel Test, if you're not familiar with the term, is a means of testing gender bias in a work of fiction (usually movies). It asks whether the ( Read more... )

So, Matt and I decided to do this thing:

Go to Amazon between now and Tuesday, and you can get a copy of our epic fantasy Lesson of the Fire for free Spread the word, and if you read it and feel moved to write a review (good or bad), please do that.

Matt and I have released our second book - a standalone epic fantasy called Lesson of the Fire. The ebook is live for sale on Amazon (as well as borrowable by Amazon Prime members), and the paperback will be out in a couple days.


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So I posted a response to the Department of Justice allegations against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers on Tuesday, contending, among other things, that certain events would of necessity come to pass before we could say publishing had adapted to ebook technology ( Read more... )

BABY!!!

*Ahem*

As many of you have already heard either via Facebook or Beth's post, William Blake Zawadzki was delivered via c-section at 5:36am on 2/17 - 20.5 inches long, 7 lb, 14.6 oz ( Read more... )

Contractions started at about 2am and are becoming gradually more frequent and intense. I'm posting this because "update social networks" was on the pre-hospital to-do list, and I'm far too drowsy to deviate from it.

More updates as soon as I have a baby in my arms.

Some thoughts on the writing lessons I learned or had reinforced by participating in NaNoWriMo.