As I sit listening to the wails of my three year old, who is most despondent from having been told he must clean his room or suffer the execution of his toys into the eternal bid of waste, I think about the cuts I just made to my novel Breeders. I am struck by the fact that…
Well, I did it. I didn’t think I would, but I have. I have made my first real, big, deep cut into my book Dead Awakenings. It was painful, and nauseating, just think the first incision of surgery can make me queasy. But, I think, that just like when I watch medical dramas, or real…
I am hoping that the fact that my brain is tired of reading my book Dead Awakening, and my eyes burn from scanning for grammatical errors, means that I am close to finishing with my editing. But I am terrified that it is just my brain and eyes resigning themselves to the fact that they…
It is official! The Changling has finished taking root in my brain. Yesterday morning, it was simply a thought. Then it became a tangible baby seed that rooted and rolled around in my brain all day waiting to find a soft spot that it could root into. By midnight last night, it found it’s soft spot and ever…
So, I got a totally crazy idea as I was driving in the car in Los Angeles traffic. I have a screenplay that I have been writing for about a year on and off. Mostly off. And in the beginning I had the main character as a twelve to fourteen year old girl. However, due…
How over used is that phrase? “Death is just the beginning” Very, overused IMO. However, it does seem to fit my book Dead Awakenings pretty well. I am currently over half way through the fifth draft and I am hoping to get to page 300 today in the edit. I am also gearing up to…
So, why did I choose that title? Because that is what I like to read and what I like to write about. I have currently got three finished novels that are in various drafts of being edited. A zombie book and two completely different vampire books. I also have two books that I am halfway…
