Progressing from my initial ideas of bottom-up worldbuilding, once you’ve established your geography, your basic flora and fauna, and then had your people rise up and spread throughout the world, […]
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In Which I Become A Word-Whore; Or, Who is Marshall Ryan Maresca Character Anyway?
So, as of today, I’ve been added to the Word Whores blog, joining Jeffe Kennedy, James Moore, K.A. Krantz, Linda Robertson, Marcella Burnard and Veronica Scott. I’ll be appearing as […]
Read moreWorldbuilding and the Challenges of the Cosmopolitan City
So, I’ve finally begun the work on The Little East (aka the sequel to A Murder of Mages) in earnest. Without delving too deep into spoilers, it deals with investigations […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
As an old school D&D person, one of the things I loved about the old Monster Manual was that it wasn’t just a listing of monsters and their combat stats. […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Pure Bottom-Up Worldbuilding
Since I’m in the process of editing my draft of Thorn II and working on the rough of Murder of Mages II, I clearly don’t have enough on my plate. […]
Read moreOh Captain, My Captain
I’ve been spending the past few days re-watching choice scenes from Dead Poet Society. I’ve never been a person who spends much time dwelling on celebrity deaths, and for the […]
Read morePerils of the Writer: Picking Your Battles
So the big news in writerly circles this weekend involved the current salvos in the Amazon/Hachette fracas, with writers remaining caught in the middle*. I honestly haven’t been talking about […]
Read moreAustin’s One Minute Play Festival
I’ve had two pieces chosen for Austin’s first One Minute Play Festival (which uses the hashtag #1MPF, if you’re curious.) It was a fun writing exercise for me, and given […]
Read moreHow I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Editing
During ArmadilloCon I had the pleasure of talking with a woman who was in the enviable-but-frustrating position of having an agent, but her manuscripts were still being reviewed by publishers. […]
Read moreConvention Panels and Expertise
So, this was a response I got to the last blog on ArmadilloCon, specifically in response to my self-admitted lack-of-expertise in the subject of the panel I was on: I […]
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