by csweet | Dec 14, 2011 | Blog Archive
I tell my creative writing students that their readers will surprise them. I say that, once their story’s out there, someone will come up with a theme they’d never thought of, or a take on a character that’s strange and new and yet totally credible. I tell my students...
by csweet | Nov 22, 2011 | Blog Archive, News
“Beautiful Nightmare.” There hasn’t yet been a more satisfying description of The Pattern Scars than this—which is appropriate, as this particular description appears in the first “official” review of the book, in the Huffington Post. It’s a wonderful review—the kind...
by csweet | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog Archive
I haven’t had any trouble with each of my three books’ dedications. With the wording, perhaps, but never with the names, which slipped onto those first blank pages as if I’d been turning them over in my head for as long as I’d been writing the books. (Yes, OK, so...
by csweet | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog Archive, News
84 Harbord Ave. Bakka-Phoenix Books. Saturday, November 5, from 3–5:30(ish). I’ll be there, along with ChiZine Publications and Martin Springett, to mark the official debut of The Pattern Scars. Come join us! (There’ll be tarot card reading and...
by csweet | Oct 2, 2011 | Blog Archive
Autumn makes me crazy, in a prickly, poignant kind of way. Twenty years ago, I would have used the word “aching” to describe how I was feeling about it. Indeed, I likely would have needed a copy editor to point out that I’d used this word ten times in three pages....
by csweet | Sep 8, 2011 | Blog Archive, News
A cat is indifferent. I, however, am delirious. A plethora of thanks to Brett Savory for driving this precious copy through downtown rush-hour traffic so that I could hold it NOW. It’s beautiful.
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