Eight million years later… Ok, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but hey – I think that’s in the job description. Though I tend to think of fiction as less about exaggeration and more about… well, skimming over the uninteresting bits. As much as possible, anyway. I mean, Ryan probably had to pee dozens of times in the first book,
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The number of unsolicited emails that I get is unbelievable. Except it’s not unbelievable. Not really. Which is sad. “Quit whining, just delete them!” Yeah, because passive acceptance is so totally my thing. (/sarcasm) Also, passive acceptance of shit things is what allows shit things to keep happening. On many, many levels. I received an email with something like this
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I was rereading a series recently, and by the time I got to book 4, I’d noticed something that had escaped me the first time around. Every character was described in terms of their weight, usually before anything else about them was even mentioned. Overweight men were “beefy.” Or “solid.” Women, on the other hand, were nearly always “fat.” Men who
Read moreOk. First book published – check. It’s out of my hands and into yours; what you do (or don’t do) with it is entirely up to you! What’s next? Finishing the second book, and then publishing it. Ideally, I’d like to have one out each year, around the same time. A little earlier or later, maybe… this “right before Xmas”
Read moreShort post today — there’s lots to do! I still haven’t seen the first batch of proofs, but the second batch arrived yesterday. We made a couple of small tweaks to the cover – and I mean the changes were tiny, really nitpitcky. He was like, “I can’t even tell the difference, it’s like, maybe one pixel, you don’t need
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Heather Masterson 