I've been toying with some new content ideas for the website. Most of what I come up with sounds pretty cool to me, but anyone who's been reading this mess...ahem, blog, knows that I can be deeply uncool, so my opinion is perhaps not to be trusted. For that reason, I thought I'd get some feedback before I move forward.
Read MoreYou can read it on the website here or on Goodreads!
And since this post is pretty thin on content otherwise, I would like to point out that Justin Trudeau (the Prime Minister of Canada) looks an awful lot like one of his fellow Canadians, Patrick Sharp (a forward for the Dallas Stars hockey team). I would include pictures, but people can sue you for that sort of thing if you don't buy the licenses, and I'm pretty cheap. So you can either look them up for yourself or take my word for it.
Read MoreWant to read tidbits from Bad Judgment? Go here.
From now until the book comes out (Sept 19!), I'm gonna be releasing small bits of conversations and scenes on Facebook as part of Carina Press's Conversation Saturdays. They'll be short, but they'll come from different parts of the novel, not just the first chapter or two, like the official excerpt will, so you won't be re-reading something you may have looked at already.
Read MoreSo a few months ago, I realized I had a plot hole in my WIP (that's work-in-progress, in case that's helpful). Just days after finishing the very rough first draft, something wasn't sitting right. Actually, it hadn't been sitting right for a while. I'd been in denial about how big that plot hole was because it meant major reworking, but I was so worn out from getting the draft done that I wasn't ready to deal with it yet.
Read MoreSo, Brexit happened.
Le sigh.
And in completely unrelated news, I have editing whiplash. This is what I call the extreme mood swings which accompany the very-involved revision process. Namely, this is due to two things--the aw shit moment when you realize that your talented editor has found actual flaws in your baby...erm, book...and the hallelujah feeling that accompanies turning in your oh, so brilliant edits.
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