I am not dead! I am busy, very wretchedly busy, but not yet dead. Among the many irons I have jammed in the fire, I have lately been working on a retelling of the Snow Queen. I thought it was a novella, but we have made 11K without getting Gerta more than a few days […]
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And we are live, gang! (I’m including the cover again so we all remember what I’m talking about…) Smashwords An ePub version only is available via Smashwords. Amazon Kindle It’s Kindley! Kobo Impressively fast turnaround from Draft2Digital for this one. (If anybody grabs this one, please let me know if the formatting transferred okay–I checked […]
Frogs fall out of my mouth when I talk. Toads, too. It used to be a problem. There was an incident when I was young and cross and fed up with parental expectations. My sister, who is the Good One, has gold and gems fall from her lips, and since I could not be her, […]
(I have absolutely no idea where this little vignette came from or where it’s going, if anywhere…) Stan Blackwell hunted angels. It wasn’t a bad job, not in this economy. The logistics were hard to set up sometimes, but the market for angelhide was always enormous, and no one could send you to jail for […]
So a few months back, I wrote a blog-post about being tired of Fantasyland. It’s all still true. I can count the fantasies I have read in the last six months on the fingers of one hand. That said, ZOMG, The Goblin Emperor is amazing, go read it, I stayed up until three in the […]
There has been a crazy awesome turn-out on the Patreon thing. You guys blow my mind. It pays for KUEC AND my antacids AND my coffee. I don’t know how to thank you. So, err…have a story! For those of you who’ve played CrypticStitching, here’s a small prequel for your amusement. (And if you haven’t […]
I was at the bookstore today, and my buddy Mur (who is awesome and also just got interviewed by USA Today, and has a new book coming out which includes many things that really truly happened to us in New Orleans) gave a book a vague recommendation. “It’s okay,” she said. “It didn’t work for […]
I used to post first drafts of first chapters here all the time and then I stopped for some reason–I guess I got afraid that I would post something that sucked so badly that you would all decide to never read any real book I wrote ever again. Or something like that. But hell, if […]
Or at least the, y’know, mild enthusiasm. I pick up this old manuscript and remember how much I love it. And I could finish it! And self-publish it, even, since no publisher will ever buy “Four Extremely Broken People Have An Adventure!” But I am convinced on some level that it must suck because I […]
I must remind myself– they can’t tell that I didn’t write this bit immediately after that one the six months where I ignored the manuscript are not visible to the naked eye the bit where I put my head in my hands and muttered “I have no idea what I’m doing” takes place in the […]