I feel like I’m a little late to the party, since this book has been out for about ten month already (in hardcover and Kindle; a paperback edition is coming in March 2014), but this is a book I really…
Just finished a new book by Daniel Coyle called The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How (Bantam, 2009), and I’d recommend it for anyone trying to organize a writing group or workshop, or develop their own talent. Coyle begins…
Next week is the 2013 Cascade Writers Workshop, and I’ll be there. I’m bringing the current novel in progress to workshop, and am excited to be in Nisi Shawl’s critique group — she has a lot of good, interesting, and…
The first draft of the novel is finished. The new working title is All the Wild Witches. Now it’s time to revise. I’m using Jerry Seinfeld’s “don’t break the chain” method for working through those revisions, with a nice, achievable goal…
The Dirty Streets of Heaven by Tad Williams (Volume One of the Bobby Dollar series) I thought I had read enough noirish yet fantastical homages to Raymond Chandler featuring supernatural beings, but this tale of angels and demons scrabbling for souls…