The developmental edits for CORVUS, second volume in the Frontlines: Evolution series, are finished and turned in. My developmental editor is excited about this book and says it’s my best one yet, so I hope it’ll land well with readers when it comes out in August. (For those of you wondering why it can’t be…
Category: new hampshah.
Gone fishin’
Girl Child likes to fish, and this is a good time of the year for it, so I have been driving her to her various fishing spots all over town in the last few weeks. I usually sit in the car or my folding camping chair while she is fishing, and I’ve come to appreciate…
(The butterfly is a paid crisis actor.)
Took a walk to my favorite pond the other day, and this shot turned out pretty all right: With the world the way it is at the moment, I am happy to be in a place where I can just walk out the door and be at this sort of place within ten minutes…
The last days of winter
Yesterday, I took Girl Child out to the slopes here in town for what was probably the last good skiing day of the season. Later this week we’re supposed to get a few days of 60-degree weather, which is going to melt most of the remaining snow and kick-start my least favorite season in New…
Social Distancing Summer in the 603
This is half a mile from our house. I go for a stroll down there quite often and set up a little folding outdoor chair to write in the fresh air (and away from WiFi/LTE.) Other people pay money to come here on vacation, and we get to have this any time we want. I…
Emerald City ComicCon update
Due to health concerns related to the current coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak, my publisher has decided to cancel their participation at Emerald City Comic Con, so I won’t be in Seattle or at ECCC next week. (Sorry if you were looking to come to panels or get a book or two signed.) In related news, we just…
I’m totally trademarking “color kablooie”
October brings the golden days of autumn, and the last two days have been Chamber of Commerce tourism ad weather. We’re a little late for peak leaf season this year, but the first frosts just hit a few days ago, and now the leaves are in full Color Kablooie mode. This is my ideal weather–cool…
Non-Euclidean geometry, fall edition
When I need to let my brain’s background processes figure out a story element or untie a knot in a chapter, I take a walk in the place you see pictured above. It never fails to work. In other news, I just turned in the edits for BALLISTIC, second in the Palladium Wars series,…
It’s OK if you like fall colors, I guess
New Hampshire in the fall, the best time in the best place as far as I’m concerned.
The outdoor office
There’s a pond about a half mile down the road, and when the weather is good, I grab my little Surface Go and head down there in the mornings to get a head start on the word count for the day. Right now it’s the start of the best month for using that outdoor office…