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…
I have on my shelf of writing refrences, an interesting cultural artifact from the early 70s. The title is Writing Popular Fiction, and is a hardcover published by Writer’s Digest back in 1972. The author, according to the back cover copy, had sold 24 books since 1967 (yes, that’s only Read more…
As Promised yesterday, here’s a few bullet points to keep in mind when you look to join a writer’s workshop. Look for a group of people who are close to yourself in development as a writer. While pros can teach beginners, a workshop is not a classroom, it is a Read more…
Enough politics. Let’s talk about workshopping. I really liked how the interview went with Mary (go read it, I’ll wait) and thought I’d put my two cents in about why I like running my work though the meat-grinder that is the Hamsters. What I get out of it: It accelerates Read more…
Today we’re interviewing a friend of many years and head of the mysterious group I refer to in these pages as the Hamsters. I’m talking to Nebula winner Mary Turzillo about what the Hamsters are, how they came about and what it is that they do. This is the point where I normally introduce my subject, but I think Mary does a better job than I would have. . .
GW: So, why don’t you tell us about yourself?
Okay, who am I? I’m this nutcase who loves science fiction, has loved it her whole life, and just wants to hurt people.
Emotionally, I mean.
That sounds bad. Let’s try again: I won a Nebula for my 1999 novelette, “Mars Is no Place for Children” and my 2007 short story, “Pride,” was on the final Nebula ballot. My novel, An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl, was serialized in Analog. My recent books include Ewaipanoma, Dragon Soup, with Marge Simon, and Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, a Pushcart nominee which appeared on the preliminary Stoker ballot. My work has appeared in Analog, Asimov’s, F&SF, Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Cat Tales, Fast Forward 1, and other anthologies and magazines in English, Italian, and German.
My “Steak Tartare and the Cats of Garibabakin” is in the April Analog, and, upcoming,“Chocolate Cats from Mars”is in the revived Space and Time. I’m working on Isidis Rising, a novel set on colonized Mars. (more…)
I just wanted to post a head’s-up on this a little in advance while there is still time for people to sign up. I will be teaching a class at the 18th Annual Western Reserve Spring Writers Confrence at Lakeland Community College on Marh 28th. The confrence runs between 8:30 Read more…
UPDATE: Things went very well last night. A fun time had by all. The actors were cast perfectly, and given the answer distribution, I seem to have struck the right balance between an obvious villain and a completely obscure solution. Tonight I am going, with a bit of apprehension, to Read more…
What is with it with my fellow writers? Every few months I hear about some new neo-Luddite proposal that makes the stuffed suits at the RIAA look like they’re writing Harry Potter slash to bootleg Metallica MP3s. First it was Pixel-Stained Technopeasants, then it was royalties on used books. Now Read more…
Well I went through and polished up the draft of Heretics and it is now of with the editor so I can breathe a big sigh of relief and start work on my next project, the as-yet-unnamed book 2 of the Wolfbreed series for Bantam. So we’re going from apocalyptic Read more…