The good people at BSC were kind enough to let me ramble on a bit about the process behind Kings & Assassins. Go on over and check it out, and stay to play on the site! It's a great place to spend some time.

My ramblings at BSC Reviews

While trying to organize my study again (and again and again and again--it is the Augean Stables of my house) I found a notepad with the following written on it:

New Story!  (note the exclamation point.  I was, apparently, excited about it.)

Start w/aftermath:  When the hotel failed to be devoured by a nightmare-headed god-thing, there

And THAT'S IT!   Read more

Sigh.  So it's been one of those days--busy, choppy, and full of ringing phones--and I just was not dealing with it well.  My head felt disconnected and logy; my general mood was blah, and my brain--well, what brain. Read more

So, ten days out of thirty-one lost to either migraines or to the wonders of migraine meds which take away the brain as well as the pain. 

Productivity level? 

Regrettably low. Read more

So I promised you all cut scenes from Kings and Assassins, and promptly fell down on the job. Problem is, I'm a big writer. Tell me to write 100K, and I'll write 140K. Tell me to write 120K, and it just gets ridiculous. This is the sole reason I moved to novel writing in the first place: my "short" stories were all clocking in at 7K, 10K, 25K, and the first Sylvie "short?" reached 40K at the 3/4 mark before I got disgusted and decided she needed to be a novel character. Read more