Ooo-wee!! French rights to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms have just sold to Calmann-Levy! Laissez le bon temps roulet! (…Suddenly I’m craving a po-boy and some beignets. Ah, I do know what it means to miss New Orleans…)
Mon livre sera disponible en français! KEEP READING
Been awhile since I posted here, so now I’ve got “diarrhea of the mouth”, as my grandmother used to say. Here’s what I’ve been up to lately: Received the copyedited version of Book 1 last week and have been steadily working my way through it, checking to make sure all my i’s are dotted and t’s crossed. I’ve never seen something professionally copyedited before, so it’s fascinating to see how someone who really knows their English has interpreted my sometimes loosey-goosey language. I’ve learned two things from this: a) that I overuse commas and hyphenated compounds like no tomorrow, and
Copyediting and Agents and Gardens, oh my! KEEP READING
Got the copyedit of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms today! I’ve never done this before, so I kind of boggled when I started flipping pages and saw all these little squiggly things on it. The folks in my writing group helped me decipher the first few pages, and the stylesheet included with it helps too. It looks like it’s going to be fun to work on this — and I needed to re-read it anyway, now that I’m working on Book 3, for congruity’s sake — but there’s definitely going to be a learning curve involved. Wish me luck. And in
Observations… theory? KEEP READING
OK, I know I’ve been posting more at the Magic District lately than I have been here. Sorry, ya’ll. =( Still learning how to juggle all this stuff. And apparently I’m going to be adding more soon; Altered Fluid is thinking about starting a blog. Yo ho, yo ho, a blogger’s life for me… Anyhow, this week’s post is an expansion of my post here (last week) about the retreat my writing group undertook. So check it out!
New Post at the Magic District: Retreats KEEP READING
…well, no, I just talk about it for free. But it’s the thought that counts!
Free Drugs and Rock n’ Roll at the Magic District! KEEP READING
I love my writing group! Last week we went on a retreat, taking over a farm in western Pennsylvania (near Gettysburg), where we spent 5 days doing nothing but writing and hanging out. I have to tell you, I’m not the sort of person who hangs out with a bunch of people easily for 5 hours, let alone 5 days, but this was worth gold.