Happy New Year!

on January 2, 2018 at 9:17 pm

Rites and Desires cover art by Lee Moyer So much good stuff I don’t even know where to start! I got my manuscript back from my editor over the holidays and I’m beginning to work through the final revisions. Once this step is complete, I won’t see the manuscript again until it’s laid out […]

What’s in a Name…?

Amanda

on November 21, 2017 at 9:11 pm

Here’s a secret I don’t tell people often: I don’t like coming up with story titles. I’m bad at it. My natural verbosity makes summarizing a long piece difficult to the extreme, and boiling the story down to a proper title an exercise in extreme frustration. Sometimes titles just come to me. “Holiday Magic” pretty […]

Authorial Adventures

Amanda

on October 23, 2017 at 7:12 pm

Last week I had an incredible time and I felt like I should share it here. If you’re new to the pro writing world, I advise you to seek out these kinds of experiences. On Thursday, Chuck Wendig, Fran Wilde, and Kevin Hearne came to Seattle for an event celebrating their new work hosted by The University Bookstore. Having made […]

Someone Else’s Book: Serpent’s Sacrifice

Amanda

on October 16, 2017 at 6:52 pm

From time to time here on this site I will share with you my thoughts on something new I’ve read. Today I kick off this feature with some words about Serpent’s Sacrifice, the debut novel from Seattle-area author Trish Heinrich. The first thing that I noticed in this book is the author’s mastery of descriptive language. From […]

Blights & Desires Update!

Amanda

on October 13, 2017 at 7:01 am

For those of you following along at home, I am pleased to announce that the final manuscript for Blights & Desires is finished. Coming in at a perfectly reasonable 101,929 words, it’s the longest single piece of fiction I’ve ever written. I will go into process in another post, but for now I am pleased […]