Writer Tamago

I survived my trip out, but two hours at the office sort of wiped me out. Man, how do you people WORK? All righty. We've filled Young and Fabulous for Wiscon. Readers will be Catherine Cheek, Keyan Bowes, Caroline Stevermer, and yours truly. I'll be reading from Hulk Hercules. Caroline says she'll be reading some [...]

What kind of genius did Rachel Swirsky have to be, to be nominated for a Nebula AND propose a Project Runway panel for Wiscon? MY kind of genius, that's what kind! I'll be joining Rachel and friends for the panel at Wiscon about Project Runway. I'm almost more excited about this than my book coming [...]

Guess who was enumerating goals last night about what she wanted done on the troll novel by Deadline X? Yup, guilty. Had to remind myself that the important issue wasn't figuring out which characters stayed and which left right now. Instead, the issue is to write new stuff, and see who really belongs to the [...]

I've been informed by my Viable Paradise roommate Chia Evers that I should not be a tater tot tease. I am also discarding my Midwest-centric view that everyone knows how to make this. A little bit about my history with tater tot casserole. School lunches in rural Iowa were frightening. Beef gravy that was mostly [...]

I need to get back to work. I have something like twice the usual number of things in my inbox, and while I've been monitoring from home, it's beginning to bug me. Just sayin'. I plan to go in this weekend and clean up a bit. I must be feeling better. The Type A workaholic [...]

There. The story is revised. Tomorrow I'll give it the edit and proof pass and then I'll be searching for readers. I've emailed a few folks, but if this sounds like you, let me know. I'm looking to have this back in about two weeks. I'm planning to send it to Tor.com. That makes me [...]

Carrie Ryan, who will be posting her own thoughts on this later, has started a very stimulating discussion on the muse on ye old Twitter. Here are some wonderful links that have come from that discussion. Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity Do watch this. It speaks to the divine in creativity, as well as hard [...]

Mark Henry releases his third Amanda Feral book Battle of the Network Zombies. Looks like lots is going on for the launch. Mark's work is the right mix of comedy, parody, and horror. I've always thought of it as the undead answer to Candace Bushnell. You can catch up on Amanda's first and second books, [...]

When I was reading and Chris Kastensmidt's story this morning, I felt the touch of the muse. I haven't written about the positive spark for a while, and I figured it might be time, especially since Maggie Stiefvater wrote about books that fed her as a writer, and I re-read my upbeat post right after [...]

I had the good fortune of beginning to correspond with Christopher Kastensmidt when we met each other as Cat's Curious authors. Christopher then went on to encourage me to attend Viable Paradise, which was a game changer for me. When Chris announced that his story The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard Van Oost and Oludara was [...]