Seattle Teaser

OK, first, if you haven’t read the Seattle Appendix in Demon: The Descent, go read that first, because I’m not going to explain splintered timelines and so on. We good? OK, then. I’m developing Splintered City: Seattle right now. (Like, right now. I just switched over from doing that to do this, then I’m going back so … Read more

Now Available: Call to Battle

Now available on DriveThruFiction: the 1996 novel Call to Battle, inspired by the RAGE CCG, is now available in PDF for the first time! Book One in the Saga of Jay No-Name Life’s tough enough for Jay Caldwell. He’s trapped at military school, estranged from his stepfather, and brutalized by his sadistic headmaster. Things only … Read more

V20 Ghouls: An Outline & Inspirations

Back in September I shared the V20 Ghouls Outline Panel Recap, and since then I’ve hired a team of writers. This post gives you a quick version of the outline that we hashed out from the Outlining Panel, and what we’ve been working on since then: Prologue: Opening Fiction 5,000 Words – Monica Valentinelli Introduction … Read more

Moon-Banished

I’m on the redlining charge now. That’s where I read through all the first drafts and mark up comments and corrections, everything from use of the passive voice to rules that don’t do what they claim to do, before passing back to the writers for second drafts. Of the book, I’m about halfway through — 109,000 words out of 215,000. I can normally redline 10 to 20 thousand words each day, but it’s in-depth work that involves keeping the whole contents of the book in my head and cross-referencing everything. That’s why I’m being even quieter than normal — I’m reading, but I need to focus on the redlines so don’t have time to respond just now. I am listening, though. Also? Sleep-deprived. That one’s nothing new, though.

Anyway: idigam won, 42 to 14. So let’s talk about the Moon-Banished.

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