The New New Book

The new book is Cold Welcome.   The new new book is the book after that, which presently is undergoing some restructuring…since its beginning is now the end of Cold Welcome.   I’ve been doing some analytical thinking about it, because it should have a series of reveals, like the opening of a rose,  and it would Read More…

A Dwarf, A Gnome, a Humod, a Thief…

and a paladin…walk into a bar.   Wait, I hear you say.   This is supposed to be an all-SF blog site.  No fluffy unicorns (I never wrote a fluffy unicorn) and no fantasy stuff.   Yeah, but, this is Universes, where different things meet that can’t usually, and tonight (it’s pouring rain and I can’t sleep, largely Read More…

Done Again, Dunnigan

This afternoon I mailed the manuscript back to Editor.  It’s done.  It’s done again for the umpteenth time.   I thought it was done last week, but Editor was busy with something else and said “I’ll be ready for it in a week and a half. ”   So I spent a week combing its mane and Read More…

The Characters Discuss Their Author

Conversations about the author–the characters being conceived almost as actors in a green room, let’s say–are not unknown in the writing world.   (A thunderstorm just popped up on top of us.   Blame all typos on my instinctive twitch when a close strike hits.)   So here’s a conversation between characters from some of my stuff…all of Read More…

Sticking the Landing: SpaceX

SpaceX deserves its own post here, to say “YAY!! Congratulations!” for sticking the landing on the barge today.    This is my favorite video of the flight so far:  http://tinyurl.com/zlcf38g   Boo hiss to those who celebrated the four failures and the ones who today (on Twitter, for instance)  claimed the landing was just reverse video.   No, Read More…

Done

Well, probably. Sortakinda done. At 1:30 this afternoon, I made my final staggering plunge through the muck and mire to the finish line, having untangled various tangles and discovered yet more typos. I’d been up until 2:30 am Friday morning (NOT, mutter mutter, going out to photograph peak bluebonnets and plains nipple cactus, mutter mutter) Read More…

Fossils

In the previous post I blithely announced that I was finished, done, absolutely and finally done with the structural revisions. This morning, working on temporal nits (the book has day-by-day notation in some places, and Editor had found some of them to be either confusing or obviously wrong–fossils of earlier drafts), I found a great Read More…

Step One + Snippet

Saturday, April 2, I finished the structural parts of the revisions. Now I’m going over the other comments. Stuff has been taken out. Stuff taken out was partly at the request of Editor and partly my initiative, as the changes in structure up to that point made the stuff taken out less organic to the Read More…