Where did December come from…

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Written on December 12, 2010 by   · 4 Comments

…and where is it going?! It’s just over 3 weeks until Deadlock comes out (wheeee!) but we’re living in late 2011 over here.  Sometimes we hit a perfect storm of distraction, and I’m living in it now.  Fretting over Freeze Line being on sale, worrying about Deadlock about to... Read more


If I’d Had a Mentor…

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Written on November 5, 2010 by   · 2 Comments

…this is what she would have told me. A few weeks ago, Bree and I were talking on the phone about things we really wish someone had told us back when we undertook this venture, this writing for publication thing.  And I joked and said, “The kinds of things your mentor would have told you,... Read more


Y’all will never see HALF of what we write.

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Written on August 24, 2009 by   · Comments Off

One of the things Bree and I often say is that we’re dying to try our hand at writing historicals. We also say we’ll never do it. Both statements are totally true. The problem is one of research. I love worldbuilding and research, but I’ve never seen anything like the kind of research... Read more


Incoherent & Disconnected Musings from Monday Morning

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Written on August 10, 2009 by   · 4 Comments

I mentioned briefly that Donna and I had been working on the idea for a new book.  It’s been percolating and slowly growing momentum over the last two weeks (since I started a file in Liquid Storybinder on July 23rd, to be precise) and the more we hashed it out the more excited I got.  It’s... Read more


Don’t Fear the Blacklist (Now with 50% Less Cowbell)

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Written on August 3, 2009 by   · 1 Comment

I’m an author.  I’m a baby author, granted, with far less experience in publishing than many of my peers.  But one thing I’m fortunate enough to be very experienced in is the awesome(ly terrifying) power of the internet, and its undeniable power to spread a condition known as Train... Read more


Bree & #RWAfail: A Lukewarm Tale of Mutual Antipathy

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Written on June 19, 2009 by   · 9 Comments

Donna already stated her thoughts on Diane Pershing’s original June article, and it sums up a lot of my thoughts.  But today I read Ms. Pershing’s response to Deidre Knight’s Call for Change.  And that’s when I pretty much came to the conclusion that Diane Pershing and I have... Read more


In the writing cave! Send chocolate!

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Written on January 23, 2009 by   · 9 Comments

We’ve been in the writing cave this week, trying to meet a few sneaking deadlines.  It has been so good to get a chance to get back to writing again, though… we forget how much we love it when we’re buried under the less-fun duties. So what have we been working on? Well, we finished... Read more


When it rains, it pours

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Written on September 30, 2008 by   · Comments Off

The limbo period between contract and release is a weird time. On the one hand, you have bunches to do, what with possible revisions and edits and cover art forms and blurb-writing and excerpt-picking and all, but on the other… It’s strangely void. You’re waiting and waiting, because... Read more


The Zombie Invasion

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Written on September 29, 2008 by   · 1 Comment

Release weekends always leave me dragging a little by the end, but Donna and I have gotten a lot done this week! Last week was a killer for me…tons of Coding Work for The Day Job (which I always seem to do at 11 pm for some reason) and a good bit of running around like mad while trying to organize... Read more