As I’m quietly and steadily working my way through Blood Stone, and the weekend started out with an empty email in-tray, and nothing moving on Facebook or anywhere else, I thought this was going to be one of those bulletins where I would have nothing to report, except for progress. But Sunday, which is usually […]
Working Notes – What’s Up Round Up: In The Mail, Too. Read More »
I’ve got a pain behind my eyes and my shoulders are hunched as I type this. I’ve spent all weekend — all of it — doing my taxes and filing. Because last year was such a horrid year, I didn’t keep up with my bookkeeping at all. So I paid for it now it’s tax
Working Notes – Blood Stone is moving. Read More »
I always like doing these posts because sharing what I’m reading is as much a surprise to me as it is to you. Thanks to electronic reading, I pick up and drop books like lingerie, and I’m in the middle of dozens of books at any one time. So I usually report on the books
Working Notes – What I’m Reading Read More »
A few weeks ago I was bellyaching about how I had produced books so fast that I had missed out on updating you on two books, between working note installments. Poor me, life is a bitch, huh? Guess what? Done it again. Well, sort of. 🙂 Last working notes, I got to roll in ecstasy
Working Notes – February 28 – Another Leap Frog Read More »
It’s only now I’ve recalled a pithy little line I included in the special features for The Royal Talisman: “I have also been accused of an inability to write anything short to save my life.” Good thing a hanging didn’t depend on the turn of that phrase. Because I blithely included in the description for
Working Notes – The Book That Wouldn’t Be Short Read More »
It’s been a weird week. For a start, it’s been very cold. Like, 35 degrees Celsius below zero cold. That’s negative 31 in Farenheit for all you Imperial-thinking people. I got Mukluks for Christmas — real authentic ones. But even at -35, they let the cold in and my feet started to chill up. I
Working Notes – Byzantine Heartbreak is Underway. Yeah! Read More »
Last time around, for working notes, I had skipped over two books, and had to back track. This time, I don’t have a book to talk about at all, because of another phenomenon of the indie publishing industry: doing it yourself means actually doing it all yourself. Everything. The formatting, uploading, releasing, technical un-hitching, acquiring
Working Notes – Backstage Pass Read More »
I don’t think I’ve ever hidden the fact that I write posts ahead of time and schedule them to appear here on the appointed day. Most bloggers do this. It’s a survival mechanism: We’d all be in straight-jackets by week four if we had to manually post each and every post on the appointed day
Working Notes – The Book You Missed and the One You Might Yet Miss Read More »
My best wishes to everyone who celebrated Christmas Day yesterday, and for everyone who got the day off from work, I hope you made the best of it. Of course, I’m writing this somewhere in the past, so I’m not sure yet if I made a very good day of it or not, but I
Working Notes – December 26, 2011 Read More »
Happy Birthday, Barbara Ann Cooper. My Mum. My Mum lives in Australia, and believe it or not, she reads every single one of my posts, although some of them have to crisp the hair in her nostrils! She also keeps every copy of every one of my books that I give her, but I know
Working Notes – November 7, 2011 Read More »