Shannon

It’s kind of taboo to talk about money. Especially for writers. John Scalzi’s recent deal is a refreshing exception; Jim Hines also shares a breakdown of his writing income every year, as do a few other writers. It’s great to get these glimpses into what’s really happening behind the vague “a good deal”, “five figures,” […]

Last year I read 63 books. Here are the 25 I read for “leisure” (as opposed to “somebody paid me to edit, copy edit, or proofread”), in order of when I finished them: Brenchley, Chaz: Bitter Waters Tarr, Judith: Devil’s Bargain Sedia, Ekaterina: The House of Discarded Dreams* O’Malley, Daniel: The Rook Barnhardt, Wilton: Gospel

I am too busy right now to write up a “2015 summary” post. Which is actually a pretty good summary of the year. 🙂

I finished my rewrite of Queen & Tower last night and sent it off to first readers. Yay! Wait, you say; haven’t I heard that before? Yes. Yes you have. Why, it was just October when I said much the same thing. But now! It is ever so much finished-er! I don’t even know how

I just made a Facebook post that is SO LONG, it might as well be a blog post. So I thought I’d post it here too. 🙂 Without further ado: TL:DR: That was a complicated weekend. Long version: I’m seeing everyone’s OryCon posts, what a good time they had, how successful a con it was,

Yesterday I finished my second pass of the Great Queen & Tower Rewrite of 2015, getting all the way to the new ending I wrote on the last pass. I found myself thinking, Oh, yes, this is good! So that’s encouraging. The third Great Rewrite Pass is already underway; that’s the pass where Mark reads

We are packing and printing and making ready to travel to Spokane on Tuesday for WorldCon AKA Sasquan! And we have programming. I’m going to put both Mark’s and mine on here, because he hasn’t blogged in three years. (See? There’s even more occasional bloggers than me.) Note: we are NOT having a dealer’s table

Hmm, I am so behind on blogging that every additional day that goes by without my having blogged gets me even further behind, and with more to write when I actually do blog, so the task becomes more daunting, so I don’t blog, and….you get the idea. I guess the thing to do is to

Oh, the website/email troubles and woes I had, let me tell you. Down for hours at a time, day after day. NOT GOOD. DOUBLE PLUS UNGOOD. So my brilliant web designer has begun the process of moving me off of Bluehost and into having my website and email hosted by Google–less than half the price

So here is the post with the less-good things that have happened over the last while…the biggest being the departure of my parents’ Little Dog, who headed off to the Great Hearth in the Sky, after being their faithful companion for fourteen years. His name actually was Elmo, but I always called him Little Dog