by csweet | Aug 28, 2014 | Blog Archive
Peter’s new book came out a couple of days ago. It’s been lauded in Publishers Weekly, Locus, the Los Angeles Review of Books; accrued a slew of multi-starred reviews on Amazon and Goodreads; inspired incredibly detailed renderings of its featured...
by csweet | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog Archive
I spent my four BA years reading, thinking about reading, writing about reading. I read Milton and Hesse, Lorca and Kincaid, Senghor and de Beauvoir, Borges and Whichever “Anonymous/es” Wrote Beowulf. I hunkered down in sentences and examined individual words; I built...
by csweet | Jul 22, 2014 | Blog Archive
Last week, Peter Watts tagged me in something called “The Writing Process Blog Tour”. I’m going to be lazy, and let him outline the terms: “It’s kind of an authorial chain letter. An author receives a series of questions (presumably of interest to the reading public);...
by csweet | Jul 3, 2014 | Blog Archive
I’ll be going to London in a little over a month. I haven’t been there since I was three. My personal memories of it, therefore, are non-existent. My collective unconscious-type memories of it, though, are varied and vivid. There it is, in old family...
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...
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