Gah — I just cut 16,000 words from my novel, which really feels like going backwards. It’s not, because I cut them to put them into book 2; I think I was rushing book 1 a lot, and this will be better. But it’s still unnerving to go from 49,000 words to 33,000 words. Eep.
Quick note that if you read Sandhya Menon’s “When Dimple Met Rishi,” it’s now on Netflix as “Mismatched”. Subtitled for those of us who need the English. Very cute.
I’m not sure I ever told you folks WHY I decided to do a podcast with Benjamin Rosenbaum. Ben and I tell one story, about our car ride up to WisCon every year, and the book tour road trip that didn’t happen because of the pandemic, and that’s a true story. But I think that
Why We Started the Podcast Read More »
Okay, so this is just funny to me. We asked Darius Vinesar to pull some clips from the podcast that we could use to advertise the Kickstarter. Right? I have to note here, because it’s very relevant, that in addition to being our audio / video editor on the podcast, he’s also a young writer
I Love SF/F, I Swear Read More »
Another tea towel arrived! I want to give a special shout-out to Jack Kotz here, my artist on The Stars Change (both cover and interior illustrations), who let me use his sketch of the capitol city of Kriti as the basis for my vintage travel tea towel design. The slogan is the fictional university slogan
The Stars Change, but the Mind Remains the Same Read More »
(From both Swati Saxena and Madhurima Chakraborty — the kids were a little scared of the short ones, so I took those, and they took the long ones…) (Kavi asked if I was sure I wanted to take photos since she wasn’t dressed up in Sri Lankan clothes and was just wearing her black emo
Definitely writing slower than yesterday, but chugging along. May need a cup of tea to keep me going. 9780 words so far, breaking for an hour for dinner, then planning to come back to write for a few more hours. I don’t really have to get to 15,000 words; if I turn in 13,000, that’ll
May Need a Cup of Tea Read More »
We’re almost up to $400 on the Kickstarter, which is pretty good progress for 5 days in, I think! (Aiming for $1500 total.) Here’s today’s three-minute podcast clip — this one’s for readers and for writers both. Ben and I start this clip talking about my trying not to mis-step around trans issues with my
For Readers and Writers Both Read More »
Story is finished and turned in, and since it’s not midnight in California yet, I’m going to claim I made my deadline. Just 11,350 words in the end, so quite a bit shorter than the 15K goal, but that can be addressed in revision. It’s been a while since I did this kind of marathon
The Death of Each Day’s Life Read More »
Weird things happen when I write this late. I’m at the climax of this story, and I have to admit, I just shot one of my protagonists, and I totally didn’t know that was going to happen until I wrote the sentence. Subconscious, tricky tricky. (Said protagonist may not *stay* shot, depending on what George
Tricky Subconscious Read More »
