Dreamwalks August 2008
DRAGON’S KEEP is out in Germany It’s always fun to pop open the box when one of my foreign language books arrives in the mail. This week my agent, Irene Kraas, sent me a box with beautiful copies of DRACHENKUSS. The cover art is similar to the US DRAGON’S KEEP except for the hand. The… Read more
DIVINERS CELEBRATE HOLLY CUPALA’S BOOK NEWS! Last week the Diviners were celebrating again. This time we whooped it up for Holly Cupala’s amazing news! Holly’s agent sold her YA novel A Light That Never Goes Out in a two book deal to HarperCollins. Hooray for Holly! As always, Peggy King Anderson wrote a fun cheer… Read more
Yesterday I taught a fun Mystery Writing workshop in Leavenworth at A Book For All Seasons. Here we are out on the sunny back deck watching one of the campers seek a hidden object. She’s getting warmer! We worked/played at mystery writing for two hours then the campers went off for lunch and a swim…. Read more
LEAP DAY Here I am on the edge of the cliff and stalling. Well who wouldn’t stall before taking a leap? The leap I’m referring to is the next writing phase. I finished my rough draft (all 349 pages of it) On Tuesday. That’s 240 pages in a little over two months. A new record… Read more
Good Golly, Miss Molly! Diviners pictured left to right Holly Cupala, Katherine Grace Bond, Moi, Molly Blaisdell, Judy Bodmer, Peggy King Anderson. Diviners not pictured Justina Chen Headley (getting ready to fly to China for a year!) and Dawn Knight. The Diviners were at it again this week celebrating yet another book publication. This time… Read more
You have this way of speaking and it is the way the story is told.There is no other way to say it. You cannot dam the waters and stop the flow.You cannot turn back to the old way of saying.You fall into the abyss of language hoping words will hold you up. They do not…. Read more
GOOD NEWS! THE BEAST OF NOORis now in its 4th printing. This means the Shriker still haunts the forest of Noor. More readers will have to go on the adventure with Miles and Hanna to end the Shriker’s curse. Do not wander in the deepswhere the Shriker’s shadow creeps.When he rises from beneath,beware the sharpness… Read more
WRITER VS. WILD July 5th. After the fireworks, what? Back to the writing desk. My character, Kipp, is in the desert now. I’m in a dry writing spell and feeling a little lost. Maybe we are both lost and trying to survive. The desert is harsh and spare. I’m reminded of Bear in the show… Read more
When I went to Ursula K. LeGuin’s book signing for her new book Lavinia (reading my signed copy now) I told her “Your words open my words.” It was a simple and quiet thing to say. There was still a long line behind me, but she looked up and our eyes met and she asked… Read more
A TALE IN A TALE – Where does STORY come from? Writing ideas are a mystery and I like it that way because I love the daily surprises waiting for me in the unfolding words. I recently read THE THIEF by Megan Whalen Turner, and loved the places where her characters told stories within the… Read more
