A couple of fun pictures have filtered in over the last week or so. Iris in Germany sent in two early submissions to try and win one of the Voyager Desert Spear ARCs, whenever I receive them: This week is “Fasching” in Germany. It’s Carneval. And during the next week i don’t have to go […]
Worlds Collide
So this is odd. Some of you may know that before I started writing fantasy professionally, I worked in medical publishing for 10 years. I wore a lot of hats in that career: editor, project manager, copyeditor, proofreader, art director, print production supervisor, vendor manager, and probably a bunch I’m forgetting. One of my regular […]
Polish Fan Art
Sometimes my readers are so awesome I can’t stand it. I’ll be sitting in my office, chipping away at the mountain of one novel or another, feeling alone and unloved, when suddenly my e-mail will chime and someone, often from the other side of the planet, will tell me how my work has touched them. […]
Warded Bookplates
So in addition to all the books coming out and various related excitement, there are a few secret projects I’ve been working on in my not-so-copious spare time. Many of these are still simmering on the back-burner, in need of seasoning or some serious ingredients, but one just rolled off the artist’s board, so I […]
DSAC Round 2
I haven’t been blogging as much as I used to. Part of this is being super-busy, but another part of it is circumspection, out of a desire not to offer any spoilers about The Great Bazaar or The Desert Spear before people get a chance to read those stories for themselves. In the same vein, […]