by csweet | Dec 19, 2015 | Blog Archive, News, Uncategorized
Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoilers below. They’re not big ones, but I would have been irritated if I’d read something like this before I’d seen the movie. So, to those who care: Consider yourselves warned. * I was once Luke Skywalker’s wife....
by csweet | Dec 13, 2015 | Blog Archive, News, Uncategorized
The Flame in the Maze is real. Here I am at its debut, on December 7th. Yes: it’s in the world—and it’s the end of the story I started writing years ago, in The Door in the Mountain. I’d be hazy on the precise number of those years, except that I...
by csweet | Sep 24, 2015 | Blog Archive, News, Uncategorized
Sometime in 1984, my friend Katherine gave me a mixed tape. (I just can’t bring myself to use the current “mixtape” spelling. I am middle-aged and refuse to be taught this new trick.) Sides A and B were chock-a-block with songs by a Chris de Burgh, from Ireland. I...
by csweet | Oct 4, 2014 | Blog Archive, Uncategorized
I finished the first draft of The Door in the Mountain: the Redoorening (working title) three weeks ago today. Peter read it (typing comments whilst I sat beside him, writhing and sometimes squeaking); my editor will read it closer to the end of the month. And already...
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 | Nov 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Ever since Chip the Cat died a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been trying to figure out how to write about it. Not his death, only: the others I’ve witnessed. And not just those: the births, too. Because I’ve been thinking, in a helpless, formless way,...
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