by csweet | Jun 13, 2014 | Blog Archive, Uncategorized
Book Two: 59,549 words. Some of those words are plot notes I’ve incorporated into the text—but basically: 59,500 words. And they all terrify me. It’s true: I’ve never known how my books are going to end until I’ve been mere pages away from...
by csweet | May 19, 2014 | Blog Archive, News
Behold: a (modest) mountain of mountains with doors. My editor/publisher brought me a bagful of these when she met me for lunch, last week. I returned to the day job with them and immediately sold two, to co-workers who won’t be able to come to my launch. The...
by csweet | Apr 18, 2014 | Blog Archive
University was really, really hard for me, at first. I’d been lucky, in high school: I’d had one teacher who didn’t mind when I wrote my novel in Latin class; another who allowed one of my Canadian Lit classmates to read my oh-so-unpublished novel...
by csweet | Mar 21, 2014 | Blog Archive
Months ago, Elder Daughter observed that I don’t listen to music. She was right: I haven’t listened to music regularly in over a year—and even then, it was old music, stuff I had on CD years before I even owned an iPod. It’s been years since I heard...
by csweet | Feb 19, 2014 | Blog Archive
I came late to Stephen King. I’m not sure why: it’s not as if I’ve ever had anything against commercial genre fiction. What I am sure of: I’ve just discovered, however belatedly, that I get a profound kick out of his books—all of them, even the ones people tell...
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