Monthly Archives: September 2010

Sep
5

First Pass Pages!

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I have to admit there’s something very, very cool about actually seeing a book really start to come together. My FPPs came in on Saturday – and essentially it’s the book, set with the fancy type-set that will be used when it goes to print. And hey, look! I have a *faery* for each of my chapter headings!!! 🙂 (The pages aren’t bound, but you can see the edges where they would be cut for the real thing.) I get a few weeks now to do another proof-read and make sure the changes I wanted got added (or removed) and that there aren’t any glaring typos or mistakes. And awesomely enough the due date pretty much coincides with the weekend I’m heading up to New York anyway (and having lunch with Danielle and Suzie, yay!), so I’ll be able to save on postage and just hand it to Danielle directly.… Read more
Sep
3

Buy Me This

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Look! It comes on a shirt!!!!… Read more
Sep
3

Friday Afternoon WTFkery

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Okay, I’ve actually seen this. And while the animation is quite good, I just can’t get past the fact that it’s a movie about a piece of dog crap and how he discovers what his purpose in life really is.… Read more
Sep
2

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back…

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One of the fun things about writing is backtracking. Not really. And this isn’t a case of backtracking so much as reworking. Although I had about 40 k written of book 2 some time last year, a good deal of it has needed to be revamped a bit to fit with all the changes in book 1. Which is fine, except that for every 1000 words I seem to write, I get stuck yanking out about 500 somewhere else. The good news is that some of those yanked bits will be able to be put back in a little later on. The better news is that I’m getting to the end of the old stuff, so pretty soon it should nearly all be new stuff. It’s just a little frustrating to be busting my hump to write a minimum of 1500 – 2000 words a day, just to watch the… Read more
Sep
1

Words That Bite You in the Ass

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I’ve had a slew of blog interview requests come in over the last few weeks (and I’m hoping to get to a number of them soon.) Some of them asked for a press kit, which I don’t have yet. (But hey, turns out I get publicist, courtesy of Pocket, so in the next few weeks that very well may change.) In the meantime, I’ve been looking over the questions  – and it’s great to see the range of them. Several of the interviewers do read my blog and they’ve tailored the questions to various important things like Hello Kitty and man-candy and David Garrett. I’m rather touched by this. There are serious questions, too, of course – and one of them specifically asked if I ever regretted writing a review on a book, now that I’m also an author. And the answer to that is yes. In fact, I’ve gone… Read more