Updated to-do list from now until next October. I have indeed crossed off the schizophrenic time-travel levitation projekt, which means I am back on Grail . Which still stubbornly refuses to write itself. I'd really like to have a draft by year's end: what do you think the odds are? In any case, my winter working hibernation has begun. Don't expect to see much of me... well, anywhere... for a while...

The glamorous life of the writer! Here's my to-do list for the next ten months. # write Grail # Schizophrenic levitation time travel vignette secret project thingy (just finished a very rough outline, and might have a draft by the end of the weekend) # revise The White City and its attendant chapbook, which might be called "The Forty Times Forty." # revise "The Romance"   # write "The Unicorn...

One undocumented feature of the Intarwebs is that the memory of a financially unsuccessful book can linger like Abu Hasan's fart . Fortunately there is a way of dealing with that. The book chains enforce the banishment for insufficient commerciality but are either too forgiving or not resourceful enough to follow the malefactors through identity changes. Thus, Sarah Monette has stepped into one of...

truepenny reports that she will now be writing as Katherine Addison instead of Sarah Monette, to fool bookstore computers. (If you're still confused about this after reading her entry, ask and people here can explain.) Which made me wonder: how many of us have a list of pen names we would use in this situation? I know I do. I skip the most obvious one, which is my actual legal name (Marissa...

2184 words on Grail since 7 am, and I'm calling it a good day's work. If I can keep up an average page of at least six pages a day, I will be done by early January. Which gives me time to revise the horrid steaming mess that is The White City , and then, once truepenny  wraps up her current extravaganza, get pushing on A Reckoning of Men in time to have it done for the summer deadline...

7 Day Meme: Day one: a song Day two: a picture Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic Day four: a site Day five: a youtube clip Day six: a quote Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy I hate YouTube, but this is a video. Sort of. And I love it. ♥ edit : yeah, okay, this , taken from truepenny is fucking amazing. Just. Holy shit. OTP Meme: 1. Pick up to 10 OTPs/platonic character pairings...

I love my Jacob's Ladder icons so very much. It's almost worth working on the book to use them. To give you an idea of what going over galleys or page proofs is like, here's the list of corrections I am sending my editor and her noble editorial assistant for the first five chapters of Chill : p 3 line 34  "Holde" should be "holde", please p 8 line 30 and 31: Please change "The Chief Engineer has...

basics Who?: Sarah Monette What kind of books?: Fantasy When?: ? - present stats this fandom was requested 10 (Doctrine of Labyrinths) and 3 times (The Bone Key) in Yuletide 2008 the Yuletide-section for Doctrine of Labyrinths contains 9 stories the Doctrine of Labyrinths-series also has a section at fanfiction.net which contained 17 stories on the last count 191 people on lj have this...

So here we go...the giant list of writing and fandom meta. This list is not comprehensive. It's intended for people who are looking for meta on a specific topic (point of view, formatting fic, etc.). It's collected from many sources (given at the end), my own links, and some delicious and Google searches. I included things I thought were relevant to AI fandom and which were, in my opinion, correct...

Caitlin Kittredge ( blackaire ) is entirely to blame for the fact that I have dusted off Houses of the Holy (my favorite Led Zeppelin album) for the first time in something like fifteen years. All the hype aside, I am reminded--they really were a pretty good electric blues band. Today marks the first day of the period of time I have marked out on my calendar for "reading and thinking about...