Dear Readers, It is with heavy heart that I announce that as of now, I will be indefinitely suspending my efforts to pursue representation for Deathless, my novel. I began working on Deathless on July 22, 2013, more than six years ago. Back then, I never imagined that I would still be working on it …
Today, I once again put myself though the agony of sending out agent queries. Having already been rejected, hitting the send button does get a little easier, but it’s still one of the hardest challenges that this novel has introduced me to. I don’t know of a more effective way of making your work suddenly …
Hello readers! It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but the dry spell is finally over. This week I’ll return to The Cluttered Desk to spread my writerly vibes and appreciation for sci-fi to the world. Things are finally settling down again for me. In the time I was away from the blog, I moved …
I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while, but I couldn’t decide how to do it. Scientific accuracy in sci-fi is something I thought I’d talk about more in the Technology discussions, (The latest on Robotics is here!) but it hasn’t really worked out that way. So instead, it gets its own post. …
Querying is hard. Much harder than I thought it would be, in fact. There are a lot of materials to give prospective agents: A query letter, a synopsis, the first few chapters of a manuscript, and all of these have to be polished to perfection. Then, when you have all of these ready to go, …
Hello everyone. There will be no science Saturday today. I put all my available time this week into Deathless, so all three of the posts I had scheduled for this week got put on hold. Expect some cool stuff next week though. Speaking of Deathless though, I have some big news: It’s finished. Like, completely …
Writing time is a fragile thing for me. I often have the attention span of a goldfish, so any small distraction is liable to turn a solid chunk of time that I’ve set aside for writing into something else entirely. I hesitate to say “wasted time,” but if we’re being honest, that’s often what it …
A few weeks ago, I wrote this post about the Dark Side of YA. Since then, I’ve been asked why I write YA if the community is so toxic. I’ll address that now. The Short answer to this issue is: The community isn’t really toxic, it’s a very vocal minority of its members that give …
Here’s an update on my progress towards draft III of Deathless. Since I finished my reread of Draft II, I’ve been slowly making the corrections and improvements that I think the book needs. A little insider information that some of you might find interesting: Since I found that the majority of the book (everything except the beginning) …
So I’ve finished my proofreading of Deathless draft 2, and I’m pleasantly surprised at what I’ve found. It’s not terrible. In fact, it’s pretty good. That might seem a little underwhelming, but some of you might remember the result of my reread of the first draft. t looked something like this: I made much fewer annotations …