If I had not included Miss Marple in my Sleuth Thursday posts, I would currently be homeless. In fact, I might be dead, murdered by my housemate the Durham Lass, who would be found sewing innocently and looking like Snow White and with a large ceremonial knife cleaned and back in its place in the […]
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Would You Like To Read Unspoken?
Random House, because they are the best, have put up the first three chapters so you can download them, print them, read them as is… It’s all so extremely fancy. Unspoken chapters: I hope you enjoy them! And since this is a present from Random House, here is something from me along with it: I […]
Being A ‘Real Writer’
So advance copies of Unspoken have been going out in the world and receiving blurbs. And here are a couple. “Breath-taking, heart-breaking–a compulsive, rocketing read!”–Tamora Pierce. Tamora Pierce. The lady who wrote the first fantasy I ever read (In the Hand of the Goddess), a tale of a girl passing as a boy so she […]
Roxanne Ritchi of Megamind
I remember going to see Megamind, the story of a stereotypical villain who becomes a hero, with faint trepidation as well as hope. I was hoping because I thought the set-up was clever–why do these brilliant supervillains, with inventions and minions aplenty, never win? Maybe because they unconsciously don’t want to, and if they succeeded […]
It Takes A Village
FRIEND: I know you’re doing your all-Gothic all-the-time readings. SARAH: Friend, that is true. Let me tell you a funny story about live burial. FRIEND: … No, you’re OK. FRIEND: So you like those Amelia Peabody novels by that author Elizabeth Peters, well that lady wrote a ton of Gothic fiction under the name Barbara […]
THE UNSPOKEN COVER
The Unspoken Cover Revealed!(also a contest). Or, see below… And the official cover copy: Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met . . . a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn’t silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outsider […]