Monthly Archives: December 2015

Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 27 December 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** Martisset was so absorbed in studying the models for death-correspondence that she didn’t hear her … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 20 December 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** Yasmin didn’t like to think of herself as naive, but the glories of the universe … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 13 December 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. *** “You won’t be expected to make a clan-marriage till you’re well into your profession,” her … Continue reading

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 6 December 2015 (WIP: Ship’s Heart)

Each Sunday, Weekend Writing Warriors offers a selection of eight-sentence excerpts from writers in multiple genres and forms. Check out the full roster here. ***   Shamali smirked at the cadet-portrait. “Odd looking creature.” “Well, genetic variation, so they’ve got … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed: excerpt from the side project (“Self Insert”)

This year for NaNoWriMo I took on two projects: the novel Ship’s Heart (space opera) and the novella Self Insert (contemporary fantasy). The following excerpt is a text exchange between Shonda (a medical necromancer and librarian) and her friend Natalya/Tasha (a writer). *** … Continue reading

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The Muse of Research: Interview with Kate Elliott

Kate Elliott is my contemporary by age and my elder by career. Over the last decades, she’s been steadily producing a wide-ranging body of work in science fiction and fantasy, with brilliantly realized settings from the deep past to the … Continue reading

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