Kass writes: I challenge you to post something awesome in your LJ or DW.

* When I brought a chair outside to have breakfast on the lawn this morning, I found a tiny purple and yellow primrose in my front flower bed. It's a new generation of primroses from a pot my mom gave me more than a year ago for my birthday. I kept them alive all winter and ( Read more... )

At New Years, I was working on chapter 16 in the novel. Six weeks later, I'm finally up to ... chapter 16. The good news is, it's a different chapter 16. Chapters 14 and 15 are both new, and chapters 5 and 6 have expanded - now with heirloom tomatoes!

It feels as though now that I have a framework I can see connections and character movements so ( Read more... )

In response to dhobikikutti, my original prompts looked like this (wiht antecedants clarified in the first one.) If a hypothetical person would like to know anything else, ask and I'll be glad to try to answer.

Tom Stoppard - Indian InkNirad Das has a son, after the play ends. What happens in Nirad's life; how does he feel about his home when he walks the ( Read more... )

Owing to work insanity, I'm a few days late in posting this - so here I am saying thank you. My Yule requests are scattered this year, but all I'm really asking is that you write a story you'll have fun with. If it makes you high, that's what Yuletide is for ( Read more... )

Hey guys, long time no see. Summer is receding; my magazine will settle into winter quarters in another week, and I'm sitting here, not at my office, with music playing and the heat lightly on, about to step into chapter one of draft five of the novel. This revision is more of a massage than a hatchet job, I think: filling out the new plot, slowing ( Read more... )

To cheer me up as I consult other experts this morning, getting on with research, I asked the my favorite Magic 8 Ball a few questions...

( The itunes Guide to Finding a Literary Agent )

I was passing by the bookstore this morning where I'd pre-ordered my copies of Spiral Hunt (one for me and one for everyone I promised one to at Christmas :-) and I stopped in just to see if by any chance... and there was a box just come from the publisher ( Read more... )

A good friend has a book out today!

And it's incredible. I've read it. Have you ever read a book and wanted to pull aside everyone you like and say read this, read it soon? I was lucky enough to read this book in draft, and I have been waiting ever since to get copies and pass them out.

Pick it up and take a look. Please.

I'm compiling a list of agents I've heard of or who have successfully gotten at least one book into print (meaning the novel I've read that thanks them on the acknowledgement page). So far, about one in five novels mention someone, and I've collected eight names. Now I just need to figure out what to do with 'em. On the upside, my advisor got in ( Read more... )

Found from caitirinThe first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me. It will be about or tailored to those five lucky "victims ( Read more... )