Because no project is truly done. Not as long as I can get my grubbies back on it to correct earlier mistakes. I posted these on my Tumblr first, so I thought I should do it here, too. I have more about these pieces here.
Read More Rebuilt Rain Gloveshttps://www.gofundme.com/jbca6738# A fellow AbsoluteWrite member brought this to my attention. No one’s grandmother should lose her home to fire during Thanksgiving weekend. And if she does, she shouldn’t have to start over without help.
Read More A GoFundMe campaign worth consideringJust completed the initial edit for Maestro. I can say this for NineStar Press: my editor is very good at catching my boneheaded mistakes. Far from hating the editing process, I loved it. It was like the final render on a difficult digital art project, or the polish of a gemstone or piece of silverwork.…
Read More Yay for editsIt’s ribbon time again! That is, award ribbons for the upcoming Fall 2015 Tempe Festival of the Arts. The theory is simple: the festival organizers vote on a Featured Artist and pick one piece from that artist’s portfolio to become the festival poster/publicity image. Then I sit down with the organizers to riff on that…
Read More Rocketships and RobotsThe short version is “To be a writer, you must write”, which I quote here from James D. MacDonald’s excellent ‘Uncle Jim’ posts on AbsoluteWrite. Also: “Rejection is nature’s way of telling you to write a better book.” For those of you starting out, or struggling along in the middle of something, it’s worth reading…
Read More More advice on how to be a writer…View this post on Instagram Peace for Paris A post shared by Jean Jullien (@jean_jullien) on Nov 13, 2015 at 3:05pm PST
Read More Paris, againKate is both a friend of mine from AbsoluteWrite and a fellow Loose Id author…but I have to tell you, I’d plug this book even if those were not factors. First, there’s the blurb: Buy a whole body…or just the parts. Then, the cover, from Kate’s blog tour list: Then the jacket copy: Special Agent…
Read More Flesh Market, by Kate LowellOkay, now I can announce the latest happy news: a book deal and another pen name. On February 2, 2016, the new digital publisher NineStar will be releasing my novella Maestro, a contemporary M/M/M erotic romance. It will be published under the pen name of M. Crane Hana, who will be writing both romance and…
Read More Maestro, by M. Crane HanaMy Twitter feed was all-abuzz today about a post from a rightfully angry YA editor, who’d just heard that certain agents were telling their author clients not to submit diverse books. (Books celebrating non-standard POVs, characters, and situations, regarding race, creed, gender identity or sexual preference.) Or to submit certain kinds of diversity, and not…
Read More Diverting diversity, and other dangersI’ve had some writer’s block recently (okay, three years of it, off and on). I think I finally broke it this month. I turned a smutty little 5K short story into a smutty 16K novella, and got it delivered to its editor at a new publisher. When they announce it, I will share the happy…
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