Before you begin, I just want to mention that I will be taking the week off between Christmas and New Years. I’m not planning to move the next Open Mic day, so it will be in six weeks as usual. That’s holidays for you…
Before you begin, I just want to mention that I will be taking the week off between Christmas and New Years. I’m not planning to move the next Open Mic day, so it will be in six weeks as usual. That’s holidays for you…
sigh
Novels got sticky. I shall release in January or February, Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.
I have not heard that phrase from anyone but myself since my father died. Thanks!
I made it! First book is out there in the world. Paraphrasing another from Dad, “There once was an old women, as I’ve heard tell, she went to market, her book for to sell.” As long as the peddler doesn’t cut off my petticoats, I’m feeling good.
What’s the title?
Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School
Thanks for asking!
O frabjous day!
I’m coming up on one year of “Showing up at the page every day.” It was an early New Year’s resolution, begun mid-late December 2020, and to track it I have a small text file where I enter the days I did NOT show up at the page.
2021 is also (coincidentally?) turning into a year where I’m doing lots more revision than I have in previous years. I launched a rolling rewrite of my novel-in-progress back around the beginning of April, expecting it to take a month or so. Still not finished. Likewise I have a couple of short stories written on the side where I’ve finished the first drafts but still need to do revision on, in ways I haven’t felt the need to in the past.
I’ve always wondered: Is this an open ‘mick’ or an open ‘mike’?
See the discussion on that in
https://pcwrede.com/pcw-wp/open-mic/
I just finished a reread of Caught in Crystal, which made me think of the first time I read the Lyra series. I read The Raven Ring first (because that was the one my library had), then borrowed the others from a friend. When I read Raven Ring again, I got to the scene where they’re researching the history of the ring and was astonished and delighted to find that it was made by one Dara kay Larrian – Kayl’s daughter from Caught in Crystal! Such a great little Easter egg for the discerning reader.
Late to the party as usual, but… the second Dix Dayton story is in the Jan/Feb issue of Analog, in stores now.