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Masks and Malevolence Cover Reveal, and Some Notes
The sequel to Frost & Filigree is officially off to the editor, and I am so excited, y’all. You may or may not have noticed, but this fall has been really, truly difficult for our family. A bunch of things fell off the rails, not the least of which was the writing schedule. But I’m happy to report that Masks & Malevolence is finally written. It’s a big little novel or just a big novella, depending on how you look at it. The story takes off where the last book ended, and our heroes are now in Cairo, ten years later, chasing clues to find out where their missing companion has gone.…
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Frost & Filigree is Born!
I’m so happy to announce that Frost & Filigree is officially available. This little labor of love came together this winter, and is quite appropriately named. If you know me, you’ll know that I’m a woman of contrasts. I love a knock down, drag out fight as much as I love the detail on Edwardian costumes. Appropriately, this book features both. The premise is fairly simple. Vivienne du Lac and Nerissa Waldemar have been living among the Tarrytown elite for two years. It is 1912 now. They are taking care of the Lyndhurst mansion. And they are good neighbors for the most part, if not a little odd. The truth is…
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Frost & Filigree is available for pre-order!
Holy cow, y’all. It’s been a busy few months over here. New house, new job, and traveling have kept me from updating the blog. But, just in time for my birthday, I’m happy to announce that Frost & Filigree is hitting Kindles worldwide. Like Wothwood, Frost & Filigree is a novella, but that’s about where the similarities end. For me, this story is a love letter to some of my favorite authors of the Edwardian and Victorian periods, tempered with a bit of a bizarre sense of humor. Imagine if the Dowager Countess told House of Mirth, for example. The two main protagonists are Vivienne, la belle dame sans merci, and Nerissa, the lamia. Of course…
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Announcing The Frost & Filigree Quartet
I love making happy announcements, especially in these times, and today I’ve got a really good one. I’m thrilled to announce that I just inked an upcoming quartet of novellas from Falstaff Press, building on John Hartness’s already established Harker series. His pitch included words like “League of Extraordinary gentlemen” and “dark fantasy” and “heroes” and “whenever you want” and I immediately got excited. Okay, more specifically he said: “group of shadowy folk heroes that span the globe fighting evil” but you get the gist. Anyway, my contribution is the Frost & Filigree quartet, four novels releasing this year, following two heroines — Vivienne du Lac (aka La Belle Dame Sans…
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Falling in love with the novella, and thoughts on story structure
Ever since I first put pen to paper, I’ve thought in novels. I never set out to write short stories. No, from the get-go, I wanted to produce mighty, expansive, world-sweeping novels. And for the majority of the last ten years, what you might consider my professional publishing career, novels have made up the bulk of my work, at least in term of time investment. The process has changed considerably, because my life has changed considerably. For the most I think I’ve figured it out. I thought I’d cracked the nut of novel production, and though it takes more time than it used to, the end product is considerably stronger. Then I…
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Introducing Wothwood, a Broken Cities Novella
I’m sick as a dog here, but a little good news goes a long way. Last summer, I was busy at work writing Wothwood, a weird fantasy novella for Falstaff Books. The idea came about in conversation with two members of my writing group (and dear friends) Jaym Gates and Michelle Muenzler. What about a shared world novella series? We liked the idea of “broken cities” — abandoned, forgotten, sundered cities — with a good dash of the Weird thrown in. Wothwood is the product of that idea. Michelle’s novella, The Hills of Meat, the Forest of Bone, just released last week. And while, on first glance, you’d think these novels couldn’t possibly…
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One foot in sea, one on shore
A post in which to say the novella writing is going well... very well. Too well. 9K in four days is pretty much the most I've written in one go in, oh, two years? It has nothing to do with time, since there's hardly enough of that to go around these days.
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Burning down the house. Again.
If you’ve been following this blog for any amount of time, you may notice that I occasionally redecorate. Well, I did it again. The last template was okay, but I wanted something cleaner that had a similar look without the clutter. I’m happy where it is, now! It’s not finished completely, as I’m working on a nice custom header graphic and whatnot. But the layout works, the fonts make me happy (which is a big deal) and… I even changed the blog’s tagline. It’d been a long time coming, and I wanted something that represented the multitude of things I write and post about. So, voila! Writing has been slower,…
