Wow how time zips by. Shadow Magic is here!
For fun, here’s an excerpt.
Excerpt from SHADOW MAGIC by Cheyenne McCray
© Copyright Cheyenne McCray, 2008.
All Rights Reserved, St. Martin’s Press
Paybacks are a bitch.
And Hannah Wentworth would see to it that Ceithlenn, a dark goddess from Underworld, paid. Big time.
Banshee, Hannah’s falcon familiar, made a soft cry and […]
True to form, life hath served me my Friday post. Last Wednesday I was at a signing for for Elizabeth Lyon and saw some of my old writing students; we chatted a little bit about this very thing. And I’ve been reading f-listers’ thoughts about this particular issue all week. A lot of people seem […]
Shhhh! Don’t tell anybody, but I just found out one of my favorite guilty secrets is out in DVD. I don’t know how long this particular series has been available, but I heard about it this morning. In fact, I just printed out the information and will be leaving it […]
It was wonderful to meet so many of you at the convention! What a terrific time. I can’t even begin to recap it and do it justice, so I’m going to let some other bloggers do it for me.
There are a couple of blogs with a lot of negative comments, the negative comments mostly by […]
Cross-posted to Fangs, Fur & Fey.
The trouble with each Friday post isn’t finding something to write about, it’s more choosing among the plethora of things to say about writing.
This week, for example, there’s three things I’m thinking about, each of which deserves a big long post of its own. However, I’m in an abundant mood […]
About a year ago I decided that DJ Clayborne, one of my Paladins, needed something to do to help keep him out of trouble. In order to keep an eye on him, I gave DJ his own blog on my website (www.alexismorgan.com) and gave him the assignment of blogging on Monday mornings. He […]
Meet Lyra, my Faerie Princess Writing Bear. :o)
On Saturday, my youngest son and I had a “Matthew & Mommy” day where we did whatever he wanted. He insisted I needed a writing bear. So we went to Build-a-Bear and here’s Lyra. I named her that for two reasons–one, Lyra is the hero in my novel […]
In the same vein as yesterday’s rant about doing the damn work, I thought I’d approach what I see as the single biggest difference between real writers and people who just like to call themselves writers for a variety of reasons. I call it discipline, but it’s really something simpler. It’s Doing It Every Day.
You […]
This will be short because I’m semi-buried alive right now. I’ve got a book due fairly soon, I’m trying to eke out the chapters for a proposal for my agent, and I just got the page proofs for my August release. Not only that, but my editor just emailed me to say she’d […]
I reached my 4/1 deadline. Yay! But I have 5 single-spaced pages of things I need to go back and fix during revisions, like more character development. Boo! I put the 5 pages at the end of the manuscript and told my editor to promise not to read those pages before she had a clean […]
It certainly does appear to be an age-old question. Is writing a skill or a talent? Is it something you can learn–tab A into slot A, tab B into slot B, rinse and repeat–or is it a numinous thing, a touch of mad grace from the Muse that the precious few are gifted with?
Well, it’s […]
Writers and readers are two sides of the same coin. One cannot exist without the other. Well, I guess stories are written without having anyone anxiously waiting to read them, but every writer I know shares some very specific goals:
1. Write the best story possible at that point in their writing career.
2. Get […]
Congrats to our very own Stephanie Rowe! Romance Writers of America announced the finalists for the 2008 RITA Awards. The 2008 RITA honors romance fiction published in 2007, and over 1,000 novels and novellas were judged in 12 categories. Winners of the awards will be announced August 2nd at the RITA and Golden Heart Awards […]