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the SS Novel 2012 is underway

On February 1, 2012 · 2 Comments · In writing

This past Sunday I officially started a new novel. [Fireworks!] It had been so long since I was last drafting (what you call it when you’re facing the Blank Page a.k.a. the pulling stuff out of your bum phase) that I felt the need to prop myself with lots of, um, props. The last six [...]

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toby’s cover and ida’s amazing artwork

On November 27, 2011 · 2 Comments · In writing

I’ve had several people ask me about the cool artwork for the Toby Streams the Universe cover, so I thought I’d do a post on it.  The image (not the text) was made for me by Ida Larsen, a digital artist living in Denmark.  She also did the art for Conjuring Raine.  I [...]

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toby and i thank you!

On November 25, 2011 · 2 Comments · In mayalife, writing

Talk about giving thanks, I’m so grateful to everyone who is buying copies of Toby Streams the Universe!  Very cool, indeed.  I hope you like it!  Raine, too.  If do you like them, tell your friends!  And please consider leaving a review on amazon.  It makes a big difference, and helps me [...]

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toby streams the universe UPDATE: now available! woo hoo!

On November 19, 2011 · 2 Comments · In writing

Like, VERY soon. Like NOW!  Toby on amazon.

I just got the final version back from the copy editor (all hail his superpowers), so woo hoo, we’re pulling the trigger!  Toby should be live in a couple of days, just in time for Thanksgiving reading—after you’ve stuffed yourself with sacrificial [...]

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toby streams the universe cover…unveiled!

On November 2, 2011 · 4 Comments · In writing

I’m pretty sure this is the one, the final version.  Final for now.  The really, real, extremely final, for right now, version, ha.

I tried to make it a little less busy, but still get the quirky upside-down thing going, because this is a quirky, upside-down kind of book.  And New [...]

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trying out cover images for next novel — care to vote?

On October 25, 2011 · 6 Comments · In writing

The art is done, the manuscript is with the copy editor, and I’m fooling with fonts. It isn’t final, I’m still playing around, but what do you think?

*chews fingernails*

Next I have to write a blurb. Criminy, I’m terrified of those….

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the putting-it-out-there blues

On October 3, 2011 · 2 Comments · In mayalife, writing

In my guise as Waking Dreams Press chief of staff, I’m working with an artist on the cover art for Toby Streams the Universe. (I’m still, at this late date, ambivalent about this title.  I hate that.)  I’m so nervous!  It’s terrifically fun to put out a book, making all the creative choices myself, getting [...]

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noteshelf for ipad — the experiment

On September 22, 2011 · 2 Comments · In writing

Writing a novel takes a lot of…well, it takes a lot of writing.  And if you are me, a lot of that writing isn’t on a computer.  Noodling ideas around, working out the arc in a scene, trying to get at a character’s motivation, backstory lists, changes to be made, punch lists, ETC, it all [...]

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plugging away is my middle name

On September 2, 2011 · 1 Comment · In mayalife, writing

Low rumbling thunder outside, the kind that sounds like Henry growling at some invisible intruder.  Gentle rain on the yurt.  I love these sounds.  The kids are playing Kirby on the Wii, they’ve worked out this system on how to play two-player where they tag-team the bad guys and throw each other’s characters to get [...]

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writer goes crazy mad bonkers at novel’s end

On August 28, 2011 · 9 Comments · In writing

Well, we survived Irene, just a few downed branches, no big deal. Phew. To celebrate, Paul took the kids on an adventure leaving me at home by myself for several uninterrupted hours, which has happened all of maybe a six times in the last five years…so I’m all hyper and running around like an idiot, [...]

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