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fantasy author, fashion historian

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Queen of None

Book One in the Queens of Fate Series

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The second book in Natania Barron's Arthurian fantasy series.

Queen of Fury

Book Two in the Queens of Fate Series

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Netherford Hall

Book one in the Love in Netherford series

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  • publication,  watcher of the skies,  WIP,  writing

    Exploring the Edges: Writing Outside the Boundaries

    April 4, 2013 / 3 Comments

    Write what you know may be the most hackneyed advice out there. And, well, it really isn’t that well informed. Yes, writing the things you know about–especially when you’re starting out–are safe bets. Keeping to the zone of your knowledge means that you’ll likely not be called out as a fraud and that you’ll keep going because, well, you already know about it. And as writers we have a tendency to cluster around the things that inform our existence. It’s why I wrote about New England in the beginning of Pilgrim of the Sky, even though I haven’t lived there in over a decade. It was part of my own origin…

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    February 14, 2022
  • fantasy,  fiction,  nanowrimo,  watcher of the skies

    A Room of Their Own: A Look at Characters and the Spaces They Inhabit

    November 18, 2012 / 1 Comment

    The last few days I’ve been thinking about some interesting aspects of the writing process, particularly in line with writing this follow-up (not really quite a sequel) to Pilgrim of the Sky. And a great deal of it has to do with space. So, in the first book, Maddie leaves her space (her apartment she shared with Alvin) and spends the rest of the book going to other places. But she most certainly doesn’t make a space of her own. As this book begins, she’s half in the process of doing that. But, as is the habit of many of my characters (when I think upon it) she doesn’t have a lot…

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    Presenting The Portraits of Fate: Anna Pendragon and Sir Bedevere, Art by Mae Morrison

    May 15, 2024

    Welcoming Winter, Gravely

    December 4, 2012

    Introducing Wothwood, a Broken Cities Novella

    January 5, 2017
  • fantasy,  Uncategorized,  WIP,  writing

    Crowded house: writing a party

    June 4, 2009 / 1 Comment

    Nah, not the kind with ale and food and wenches, though that happens from time to time. More like a party of people. At the moment I’m struggling with some of my chapters, as there are just too many damned people there all the time. Up until this point most of what I’ve written has been fairly straight-forward, with a handful of people doing fairly straight-forward things. Two, maybe three people in conversation, nice tight little story arcs… It was particularly comfortable in The Aldersgate because, well, every chapter was a new point of view, and helped me keep things neat and in a row. Now, in Peter of Windbourne,…

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  • writing

    I can hear the voice inside my head–saying you should be with me instead.

    April 24, 2009 / 3 Comments

    Me: Will you guys shut up, please? I’m trying to wake up here. Peter: But you just had a huge revelation about me, and you’re honestly thinking of working on that short story about grubby worm spider things in a Victorian garden? Spindly Grubbings: *intelligible chittering* Me: Yes, Peter. I am thinking about that. Doesn’t mean I have committed to anything yet. I have one afternoon to do this, okay? I’m trying to prioritize. Cora: (sighs) Great. So you’re leaving me on an island filled convicts and no resolve? Me: Stop sulking, Cora. You’ll be fine. You have friends to watch you while I’m– Captain Pars: Friends? She has friends?…

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    November 20, 2020

    Writing… With Exceptional Children

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  • writing

    Six of these, half a dozen of the other – a character conundrum

    April 1, 2009 / 2 Comments

    I am making every effort to write and/or edit every single day, whether it’s a work in progress or something past the first draft. It’s part of the whole, “I’m going to act like this is a professional gig” approach I’ve been instating over the last few months (to surprising success, I should add). However, I’m having a really hard time shaking the last batch of characters for any new set. It’s almost amusing, but since it’s coming in the way of a current editing project I’m trying to do (preparing Queen of None beyond the first draft) it’s bordering on plain irritating. It’s quite literally a fact of characters…

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