Moving pieces It’s a busy time for me. I’m doing revisions to Fire, blogging, working, and “building my platform.” One of my favorite scene in Star Trek, TOS That’s a phrase that didn’t exist twenty years ago unless you were talking about something to stand on. Now, publishers and agents…
Late last night, I clicked “send” on the manuscript for Book 2 in the SPARK series: Fire. It’s now in the publisher’s inbox waiting to be assigned to one of the two developmental editors Inklings has hired recently. The feeling that accompanies the submittal. I have mixed feelings about it.…
I recently finished Orson Scott Card’s Mithermage series - good stuff. At the back of Book 2, The Gate Thief, he writes an afterward (always read the epilogues and afterwards) explaining why the book was six months late. It wasn’t that he was busy binging Battlestar Gallactica, it was that…
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