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"No, you move."
Iâm going to be doing some vacation recaps and reviews, but before I do that, I want to address the elephant-sized mouse in the room. I had an absolutely fabulous time at Disney World, celebrating my fortieth birthday â but it was definitely a weird time to be there. The Kimmel cancellation happened about a day and a half before my trip, and was then reversed about a day before it ended. AsâŠ
Ideas are Cheap
âIâve got a great idea for a book. How about I tell you the idea, you write the book, and weâll split the profits 50/50?â Almost every professional writer has heard some version of this, over the fence from a neighbor, at a reunion where youâve identified yourself as A Writer Now, from a cousin or aunt or in-law. We hear it so much that itâs sort of an industry meme. These people, I think, meanâŠ
Worldbuilding for NaNoWriMo: Preptober Edition
With National Novel Writing Month starting in a little over a week, it seems an opportune time to share some worldbuilding-specific NaNoPrep advice! NaNoWriMo is celebrating its 25th year this November, which is terribly exciting. Those of yâall whoâve been with me for a while know that I love Nano. Iâve been participating since 2001, From Unseen Fire began life as my 2011 Nano project, and IâmâŠ
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Well. This is frustrating.
on falling afoul of Twitterâs banhammer As of about midnight last night, I learned that I have been âpermanently suspendedâ from Twitter. The reason given was âspamming or platform manipulation.â There was no warning, nor any indication of which tweets might have violated Twitter policy. My account has simply been locked down. As anyone who ever looked at my Twitter feed could attest, I amâŠ
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The Aven Cycle Continues⊠Today!
Todayâs the day! The Bloodstained Shade is officially out and in the world! Iâm so excited for yâall to read it. Iâm incredibly proud of this book, not only for the determination it took to produce it, but also because⊠itâs really good, though I say it myself! I hope you find as much delight in reading The Bloodstained Shade as I did in writing it! Hereâs where you can get it: Ebooks ââŠ
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New Aven Cycle Paperbacks
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Requiem for a Hellsite
Requiem for a Hellsite
I write this post knowing it could, at any moment, be rendered outdated in one way or another. Twitter could crash entirely. Predictions are that it will sometime over the weekend, since there are apparently all of 3 engineers left. Or, it could somehow survive. Iâve retained a hope that weâll somehow manage to Roadrunner ourselves right off the cliff and onto a different plateau on the otherâŠ
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Cover Release & Pub Date: The Bloodstained Shade
Cover Release & Pub Date: The Bloodstained Shade
The Bloodstained Shade, Book 3 of the Aven Cycle, will release on January 31, 2023! And it has a magnificent cover, designed by ebook launch. Isnât that glorious? Iâm madly in love with it. You can pre-order The Bloodstained Shade now! On most platforms, at least. Kindle-only readers will, unfortunately, have to wait for release day, because Amazon does not play nice with otherâŠ
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Giving Good Panel
With in-person conventions back (if often in modified form), Iâve had the opportunity in recent months to think about what makes a panel fun and interesting both to be on as a panelist and as an audience member. If youâre attending cons as a writer, youâre selling yourself and your work. It can be a great opportunity to reach new readers and develop relationships that can be fruitful in the longâŠ
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News for the Future of the Aven Cycle
An announcement about The Bloodstained Shade... and what lies beyond!
This month, I have had the utter joy of returning to the world of Aven in a deep way for the first time in quite a while. Since finishing drafting The Bloodstained Shade last September, I really havenât done much with the story. Not much new, anyway. I did some polishing on From Unseen Fire before the relaunch back in the spring, but that wasnât deep work. In May, however, I set to the task ofâŠ
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The Queen's Ball: A Review
The Queenâs Ball: AÂ Review
A couple of weeks ago, I went to the Bridgerton Experience: The Queenâs Ball! And while I enjoyed myself, IâŠ. also have Notes. While there are a lot of highlights, I confess that I donât really feel like I got my moneyâs worth. If youâre thinking about going, well, maybe this will help you decide. I went to the DC location, and I am someone who also works in immersive theatre, so my observationsâŠ
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Newly Amended and Improved
Newly Amended and Improved
Todayâs the day! It is Romeâs 2,774th birthday, and in honor of the Eternal City, today is the day that the new e-book editions of From Unseen Fire and Give Way to Night are released into the wild! You can acquire them from your favorite purveyor of digital fiction* at the hot-hot price of just $2.99 each. *The Kindle version may be slow to appear, because AMZ chooses to be difficult if youâŠ
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A Turn in the Road
I have some news that is big and a bit scary, but also holds in it, I hope, the seeds of new opportunities.
Hey, everyone! So, I have some news that is big and a bit scary, but also holds in it, I hope, the seeds of new opportunities. DAW Books and I are parting ways. There are a lot of reasons for this, and while I canât share everything, I do want to discuss what I can, to let my readers know whatâs going on, to give a heads-up about what the future of the Aven Cycle will look like, and to provideâŠ
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How to Make Interesting Worldbuilding Choices
We canât assume that everyone knows the world weâre talking about, right? Luckily, author and previous Camp NaNoWriMo counselor Cass Morris has a few suggestions to help us more deeply explore our worldbuilding:
One of the most powerful things we can do as writers is create a world. What we write holds a mirror up to reality, where we can examine and criticize our own world or try to build a better one. We get to play god with our characters, and in doing so, we exercise a great deal of power in what we choose to reflect, to magnify, to laud, and to condemn.
So how can we make interesting choices, rather than relying on stale tropes, biased perspectives, or common assumptions about âthe way things areâ or âthe way things wereâ?
Here are five basic concepts I suggest you explore to develop a richly detailed and unique world:
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What I Learned at Summer Camp
What I Learned at Summer Camp: A collection of observations on friendship, queer identities, bloodthirstiness, and more
As many of yâall know, I spent this summer working for Plato Learning, a company that runs mythology-themed summer camps all over the country. Theyâre inspired by and somewhat based off of the Percy Jackson series, none of which I had read before applying for the position. (Iâm ten books in now). My job, as Quest Director and Chronicler, was to immerse the campers into the mythological world ofâŠ
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Patreon Special Offer!
Hello, everyone! Running my Patreon for four years has been absolutely incredible. With nearly 700 posts and new material 2-4 times a week for everyone at the Patricians+ levels, this project has taken on a whole life of its own! If you havenât checked out my Patreon before, I invite you to watch my new introduction video! This will tell you a little about who I am, what I do, why I loveâŠ
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Student Q&A
Student Q&A: Back in November, I had the chance to "visit" a local high school creative writing class. Their questions were so astute I wanted to share them and my answers more broadly!
Back in November, I had the great joy of getting to âvisitâ (via video chat) a creative writing class at Clover Hill High School in Chesterfield County, VA â just south of where I grew up and currently live! They were participating in NaNoWriMo, and their teacher asked if Iâd come speak as someone who had done Nano for a lot of years and was now living the writerly life. I was delighted toâŠ
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