Monthly Archives: October 2011

Oct
9

Entirely Too Much Time on Their Hands…

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I think I just had a nerdgasm. Yes – these guys actually built The Last March of the Ents. With LEGOS.  Epic Isengard is epic.… Read more
Oct
7

Friday Night WTFkry: The Haunted Vagina Edition

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Yeah, you heard me. Haunted VAGINAS. It’s just been that kind of day, I guess. So…I know it’s near Halloween and all, but I’m really not sure what the deal is with this particular trend, but it sorta boggles my mind that the concept has actually led to at least two variations of it in the last few weeks. Up first is the latest issue of Tarot:Witch of the Black Rose…which apparently involves some sort of zombie nurse chicks on the look-out for the owners of their body parts (which were given to others after they all died in a terrible accident.). One of these is, in fact, a vagina. Nurse zombie *really* wants it back. And I’m just going to let THIS article give you the rest of the scoop on that, because…yeah. It’s really damned nasty. We’ve also got a book, entitled, amazingly enough: The Haunted Vagina.  (Which… Read more
Oct
6

Why I Followed My Agent

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Several weeks ago I got a phone call from my agent, Suzie Townsend. She was letting me know that she would be leaving Fine Print Lit and moving over to Nancy Coffee Literary & Media Representation. I essentially had three choices: 1) Stay with Fine Print Lit and be assigned to another agent. 2) Go off and start the query process again and find a  new agent. 3) Follow Suzie to her new agency. It’s an interesting crossroads, to be sure. For one thing, I’ve been through this before. My original agent left the agenting business about 8 months after I’d started working with her (for health reasons.) The agency did their best to shuffle her clients around and find us a good match. This is harder than it sounds. For one thing, in many ways agenting is a working partnership, albeit an odd one to get. You usually can’t just… Read more
Oct
5

A Sliver of Shadow: First Pass Pages

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So the first pass pages for A Sliver of Shadow came in yesterday. (I arranged them in a nice pile there for the picture, simply because that’s what my thought process looks like, at the moment. BLARGH) For those of you who might not be aware, FPP are when the publisher sends you a print-out of the book – essentially an unbound galley. It’s typeset so you can see how everything will be laid out in the final printing. (There’s a nice Holy Crap! I’ve written a book! moment in there too…) It’s an author’s last chance to read it and make (small) changes. Typos, continuity mistakes, remove a sentence, add a sentence – but as a whole, the book is officially done.  (Although someone needs to look at the layout of page 61 – wow is it ever gorked up. Don’t know if it’s a printer error or setup error,… Read more
Oct
4

Mystery Machine Awesomesauce

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I ran out of time today for blogging – but hopefully this totally awesome picture of Velma getting ready to kick some zombie ass will make up for it.… Read more