Just a few things today: Episode 13 finally made it out to beta readers, so we’re getting a lot closer! I’m having trouble deciding what to release as an excerpt. I might not even release one before the book releases. Once you see how the episode is built, you’ll understand why I’m having trouble. The spoiler-potential is astronomical on this one. I am rebuilding the ebook code for episodes 10 – 12 to make it easier later on when I want to mush everything into one volume. If you get update notices for these files, that’s why. Back into the coding cave with me. Have a good one!
Continue ReadingI Hate Ragweed
From deep in the last-minute revisions cave, I emerge briefly to congratulate our July, 2015 Giveaway winner: Kathryne Congrats, Kathryne! I would stick around and celebrate, but I reckon y’all would rather have Episode 13 than a blog post, so… Yeah. Congrats again, and good luck this month, everyone else.
Continue ReadingFair Warning
I’m posting this at the request of two of our alpha readers. They advise that it might be helpful for readers to revisit FH Season One before picking up Episode 13 (aka The Episode No Josh Fan Should Miss. Also The Episode That Almost Killed Its Author). Now, normally when I hear something like this from an alpha-reader (or a beta-reader) I would take it to mean I’m not doing my job well enough to help people remember names and events. But then I remember I’m writing a serial, not a series, and not a small one, either. We tend not to waste a lot of words on anything; few… Read More
Continue ReadingGiveaway Reminder
There’s only a couple more days to enter this month’s giveaway. Don’t forget, and good luck! Lots more progress last weekâReally busy day ahead, too, so let’s do this! Have a great Monday!
Continue ReadingThank God It’s Monday
/clutching keyboard Soooo glad to be back at the writing desk today. Now if I could just get babycat out of my office plants… Have a great one!
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Rather a lot more excitement around here yesterday than I’d really like; major storms, power out for 8 hours. Parts of town STILL have no power after 14+ hours. /wince One good thing did come of it, however. My children will never again mock me when I tell them they had better get their phones on the charger in case the weather gets as bad as the forecast says. And now to take advantage of all this glorious electricity to get some revisions done… Have a great Monday!
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So I was on the phone with Emma over lunch today, discussing revisions, and we got onto the topic of the “strong heroine”. Everyone talks about this as an archetype. It’s even a Netflix category, but it’s funny to me how one-dimensional “strong” appears to be. How do we define strength in a heroine? Is she kick-ass, like physically strong? That seems to be the extent of it for a lot of folks. What about emotional strength? Spiritual strength? Mental strength? Moral strength? Jane Eyre would be an awesome example of that last one. Anyway, I thought it was an interesting discussion. Maybe light a thoughtful fire for other writers… Read More
Continue ReadingUm, Canada?
Lots of progress last week. Cross your fingers that continues this week. And damn, Canada… Is the entire country on fire or something? Y’all’s smoke is killing my eyes. (I can’t even imagine what it must be like up there, seeing how things have been all the way down here.) Anyway, happy Monday! Have a great week.
Continue ReadingGiveaway Winner
I was supposed to post this yesterday, and plum forgot, sorry. Congrats to June, 2015’s contest winner: Carrie W Congrats, Carrie. Please check your email for more information. Everyone else, July’s giveaway form is up and running. Good luck!
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Greetings! I’m getting a lot of email inquiring after Pressure‘s release date. I will try to answer all those individual mails, but since I know everyone else is wondering too, I’ll answer it here publically to cut the wait. I hate to give a release date at this point. I know there’s still work to be done, deciding what we’ll keep and what still needs further revision. Such is the joy of balancing action/suspense with the fun stuff; too much of one and not enough of the other without losing the all-important character development (and boy, is episode 13 heavy with it) makes for a real interesting waltz, especially in… Read More
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