Archive for the ‘wolfbreed’ Category

It never ends. . .

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

About those counters I have in the sidebar here:  In one sense they tell you (and me) how close to completion a given project is.  In another sense, they're a lie.  I am tracking, essentially, the progress of a first draft.  A worthy achievement, but nowhere near actually done.  My ...

Titles again

Friday, October 17th, 2008

The good news is that DAW's going to re-issue my two Cleveland Portal novels, Dragons of the Cuyahoga and Dwarves of Whiskey Island in an omnibus edition due out August 2009. W000t! The bad news, Sheila at DAW told me this yesterday, and she needs me to give her a ...

Character abuse

Monday, October 6th, 2008

I don't think anyone would say I'm easy on the characters in my books.  Almost all of them, in fact, are put through several flavors of hell before the end.  I have noticed something lately, a developing trend in my more recent work, that has bearing on the kind of ...

Done, really, I mean it this time

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

I turned in the editorial revisions for Prophets today, which means that I am officially done with it. It got a bit longer which is why all the counters moved around. Next task, is a second round of editorial edits on Lilly's Song, which are relatively minor and ...

Oh yeah, about those counters

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

No I didn't forget about them, it's just this little old thing called revision. See, when I finish a novel and turn it into an editor, it isn't really finished. Since you all saw those counters grind to a halt I've been stuck revising Lilly's Song for Bantam, ...

We have a title!

Friday, April 25th, 2008

My existential title crisis is over! And and the winner is: *drumroll* Lilly's Song Now we just need to decide if it's "A Wolfbreed Novel" or "A Novel of the Wolfbreed"

Taking a breather/Title juggling

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Well, since I finished up the Wolfbreed rewrite, I haven't done much writing. I guess I just needed to rest the old story muscle for a bit. Also, the next thing I'm working on is Heretic, the second book in the Apotheosis Trilogy. This means going straight from ...

Rewrite Done

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Well, I've gotten through most of the editorial rewrite of Wolfbreed #1 (Yeah, I know, but I just e-mailed Anne a bunch of title ideas) and I'm going to go over copy-editing type stuff this weekend and hopefully send out the final draft to her and Eleanor by Monday. ...

In case you’re wondering

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Now that I finished the unscheduled spec novel (the first draft anyway) I am now in the throes of doing an editorial rewrite on Wolfbreed #1 (did I mention I need titles?) which will probably take me through mid-April (tax day, wheee). After that's done the plan is now ...

Unrepentant self-satisfaction

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

A couple of woo-hoos:First off, Anne at Bantam has given the ok to the outline I submitted for Wolfbreed #2 (titles, I need titles.) which means that I can go ahead with it as soon as I get the next DAW book out of the way. Second off, we ...