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There was an interesting and disturbing article going around Twitter the other day. An agent had apparently offered an author representation, but only if she cut a point-of-view character…who happened to be gay. As the author put it, this boy’s romantic subplot didn’t go beyond kissing (just like the straight characters), so it wasn’t a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I create a character, I have an image in mind of what they look like, but I’m a very visual person, and to keep things straight in my head, I prefer to have pictures of my characters for reference. If I was the artistic sort, this would be easy, but… I’m not. So instead, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People who know me understand that depending on the situation and the people who are around, I can either be extremely loud and talkative or I can clam up and basically disappear into the woodwork. It’s both a gift and a curse, because usually my instincts just drive me to certain behavior, and I have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
New projects. I love them, and I hate them. As most people who have read my stuff know, even within the same world, I tend to switch things up. Sometimes it’s jumps in time, others locale, but I very rarely have the same narrator back-to-back. On the one hand, this keeps things fresh for me, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The simple answer to that is “of course, write, you idiot.” But hear me out before you make such a snap judgment. If you had asked me a couple months ago what I’d be working on after I finished The Devil You Know, I would have talked about this nibble of an idea for a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m nearing the end of my current WiP. In the last couple weeks, the story has undergone some changes. First, I finally ditched my old working title, To Die For. Even on first choosing it, I knew it wouldn’t stick. Though it fits certain important aspects of the story, it was too generic. On the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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