by csweet | Jun 28, 2011 | Blog Archive
I’ve been distracted, lately. Because of the usual – trying to get the kids to eat something other than Nutella-slathered waffles; wedging myself onto rush hour subways and then propping myself up at my office desk for 8 hours; hacking triffid-sized weeds out of the...
by csweet | Jun 8, 2011 | Blog Archive
A tale was always told, in the lower city and in the castle (and I know, because I’ve lived in both places): When Teldaru, who was later seer to King Haldrin, was a boy of five, a powerful and much-hated lord ordered him to fetch a flagon of wine. The boy did the...
by csweet | May 30, 2011 | Blog Archive
I’m about to get my editor’s comments back on The Pattern Scars. It’s been seven years since I had professional editorial feedback on a book of mine, so I’m excited and trepidatious (used to think I’d made this word up; Microsoft spell check still does), and...
by csweet | May 25, 2011 | Blog Archive, News
First: my appearance at the Chiaroscuro Reading Series back in January. I read Chapter 1 of The Pattern Scars – because I always fear that I’ll ramble if I decide to read from, say, Chapter 5 and need to set things up for the audience first. Peter Watts...
by csweet | May 16, 2011 | Blog Archive, News
Dear Jeff, It’s been years. Six, to be exact. I wasn’t much of a catch, in 2000. I was an unpublished author who presented you with a first novel that was long on semi-coloned, polyhyphenated-adjectival lyricism and short on plot. You took a pretty gigantic leap of...
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