January is more than half over. The holiday train wreck has been cleared from the tracks, and I have no more excuses not to finish this novel. By “finish,” of course, I mean complete the first draft from A to Z. (If only you could just write “the end” and then have a finished book!)… Continue reading January–Time to get going!
Category: writing
Beyond 50,000
I hit the NaNoWriMo milestone today: 50,000 words! Never mind that it’s December 13, not November 30. Or that I started with 20,000 words I’d already written. Or that I still have miles of story left to tell… It still feels like 50,000 is a magic number. That’s about 200 pages, maybe more if you… Continue reading Beyond 50,000
How to Get Published (ha!)
As if I knew. But there are no “how to do it” rules. There are only “how I did it” stories. And each one of those stories is different. So here’s mine. Anybody who writes with the hope of getting published has heard, “Never give up! Keep trying! Be persistent!” But I did give up.… Continue reading How to Get Published (ha!)
THREE Weeks til Pub Day!
Today is Tuesday, which means that SHE MADE A MONSTER officially goes on sale in exactly three weeks! I can’t believe it. Sometimes it seems like it’s been such a long time coming, but I’m told by those who know that the process actually went lickety-split for this book. And I have to believe them… Continue reading THREE Weeks til Pub Day!
How Mary Shelley made a monster… in her own words. Part 1.
To mark only TWO MONTHS until publication, I want to let Mary Shelley tell in her own words how she made a monster. This is the story as she tells it in her introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein. Since it's a bit long, I'm going to divide it up into a few separate posts.… Continue reading How Mary Shelley made a monster… in her own words. Part 1.