(Image is of Freya, a tortoiseshell tabby, sitting curiously on a new faux-leather kitchen chair. A second chair is dismantled on the ground next to her) Well, if the state of the author is “busy,” I hope that helps explain why there was no update in July. Finishing up Keepers of the Flesh while getting Alien Olympus out absolutely ate my time around the turn of last month. (I still haven’t released the Ingram paperback of Alien Olympus, for that matter, as the initial proof I received wasn’t ... Read more »
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State of the Author May 2026
To give you a sense of how my schedule is structured, I schedule edits for a year in September of the prior year. So at that point, I usually know what I am writing and have time slots set up for each book. The goal is to publish a novel every second month and to write a book in seven to eight weeks. There is an intentional disconnect between those two cycles, intended to let me get ahead and allow for projects that won’t get published straightaway. Right now, I am burning up all of the ... Read more »
State of the Author April 2026
(Image is of Skadi perched on the edge of a box of packing paper, looking inquisitively at me) In a word: overwhelmed. I took some time off to visit my grandparents in Scotland (a bit more on that later) and I thought I had everything lined up to make that perfectly fine. I was wrong. I forgot that I needed to get everything sorted out for the second and third Changeling translations—and then the outline for Fated Skies decided to be one of my super-detailed ones instead of my high level ... Read more »