I’ve learned a few things so far on Wolfbreed #2, a number of which relate to getting the thing done. As you can see by the rather swift progress I’ve made on the meter below. I’ve had creative spurts before, but oft-times they’re short-lived affairs that burn out after a Read more…
Prophets has been reviewed in SF Signal, and well I can’t complain about that 🙂 Also, another blogger has decided to have a contest with my book as a prize. Cool. Also, I’ve put up a home here for Wolfbreed, although that book is probably also going to get its Read more…
The artist is Gene Mollica, who also has a cool variant of this image on his website.
I’ve been doing ~1500 words a day since the beginning of March, and we have officially passed the 1/3 mark on Wolfbreed II. Over 33K so far. Can’t blog much though, got to get back to writing the novel. Tomorrow I’ll blog about the cool performance I was at on Read more…
First off, I’m exceeding my prior stated goal of 20K by today, hitting 24K as of this writing. Go me! Second off, I got my highest-profile internet review to-date on Prophets on io9. Go me, squared!
If you noticed the counters, I’m off to a fair start on Wolfbreed II. I’m just short of 14K words as I write this, which is a good thing, because I am up on a deadline here. The other reason this is a good thing is when I’m writing hot, Read more…
You may remember that, upon selling the first book of the Wolfbreed series to Bantam, I had titled it, simply Wolfbreed. You may also recall that Bantam asked me to change the title. So, after much debate, I came up with Lilly’s Song. We’re all happy. Now, apparently some shifts Read more…
Just wrapped up the draft of Heretics, YEA! Something over a hundred thousand words of epic destruction as I continue in my apocalyptic deconstruction of the Hostile Takeover universe. I’ll be doing some fixing up of the draft this week (a few retroconned scenes here, some backfill there, epigrams everywhere) and should get a copy off to DAW by Monday. Doesn’t mean I’m done with it, for good— I always have editorial revisions— but I’ll be done with it for now.
List of stuff that’s happened in my career lately in lieu of a full blog post:
Just got Bantam’s cover art for Lilly’s Song, and it kicks ass (will post as soon as they confirm I can post it to the web). I got an equally kick-ass blurb from George R. R. Martin for it:
S.A. Swann has written a spellbinding fantasy of the Teutonic Knights and the great Northern Crusade, set in a little-known period of history amidst the gloomy forests of Prussia and Lithuania. Vivid and visceral, dark and delicious, this one kept me turning pages from start to finish.
This comes on the heels of the one from Mary Balogh:
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 Read more…